Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder Devastated Review – Fire!

<p><em>Paper Wars&colon; Cannon Fodder Devastated<&sol;em> is like a free flash game from five years ago&period; The premise is simple&colon; you are a military commander in charge of a tank&period; You fire at waves of enemies to stop them getting to your base&period; You can pick up power-ups to bring in air-strikes&comma; mines&comma; etc&period;  The problem arises when you quickly realise that all you’re doing is moving a hitbox around a group of enemies and releasing to fire&period; There’s no strategy involved with placing down traps or enough movement via a different viewpoint to make the gameplay particularly interesting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The main source of strategy is using power-ups to gain an advantage&period; There’s some good ones like Mines&comma; Airstrikes and Rage &lpar;which just allows you to keep firing&rpar;&period; Then there’s some alright ones like Reverse and Speed Up Reload&period; None are particularly awful&comma; but whenever Rage can be enabled&comma; they all lose their needs quite quickly&period; Also&comma; the mechanic whereby your gun gets disabled for a bit if you shoot a power-up is ridiculous&period; It just added frustration to the game&comma; especially due to the random spawn times of the power-ups&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;137103" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-137103" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-137103 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;29045144&sol;Paper-Wars-1-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Paper Wars&colon; Cannon Fodder Devastated 1" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-137103" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em>Paper Wars&colon; Cannon Fodder Devastated<&sol;em>&comma; iFun4all<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>With 84 levels spread over 3 campaigns and with 3 difficulty levels each&comma; it seems like a lot of content&period; However&comma; each campaign can be completed &lpar;at least on Rookie difficulty&rpar; in around an hour&period; It’s also quite repetitive&comma; with any attempt to change up the formula in the 3<sup>rd<&sol;sup> act &lpar;colour-coded zombies&rpar; being lost on a player who now just wants to complete the game&period; There is a cool change whereby the gun starts breaking right at the end&comma; adding some timing&comma; but even that is done half-heartedly&comma; with unresponsive tapping&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One major problem is the lack of any real progression&period; Sure&comma; your tank does upgrade itself after every few levels&comma; but you have no control over what happens with the upgrade&period; Neither can you see any stats and I’m not entirely sure it actually changes anything&period; Being able to collect coins and upgrade your weapon to make it your own&comma; upgrading power-ups etc&period; would go a long way to add some flavour to the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;137104" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-137104" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-137104 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;03&sol;29045318&sol;Paper-Wars-2-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Paper Wars&colon; Cannon Fodder Devastated 2" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-137104" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Paper Wars&colon; Cannon Fodder Devastated<&sol;em>&comma; iFun4all&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>At least the art style is clever&period; Taking the appearance of doodles&comma; enemies seem cut out of paper&period; This reduces the impact of the violence of blowing up 30 soldiers at once and also looks good&period; The entire game has a childlike&comma; cartoony feel which works&period; However&comma; it is sometimes at the detriment of the writing which is mildly cringe worthy&period; Also&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s just general spelling mistakes and grammatical errors&comma; something I thought would have been fixed&comma; given this is originally a WiiWare title and Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s reputation for approving quality games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; <em>Paper Wars&colon; Cannon Fodder Devastated<&sol;em> is a game which could have been so much more&comma; if they’d be more focused on improving progression and the repetitive nature of the gameplay&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;"><strong>Disclaimer&colon; <&sol;strong><em>A Nintendo Switch code of Paper Wars&colon; Cannon Fodder was provided by iFun4all for the purpose of this review<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;