Infinite Dreams’ Jelly Defense [$.99] is a well-made by-the-numbers tower defense joint with an embarrassingly unorthodox and captivating art direction that arterially informs and fleshes out its otherwise boring core mechanics. Without this direction it’d look and feel as flat as a modern FPS, but its detail, vividness, liveliness, and the raw skillfulness employed in making it this way morph it into an experience.
In our first edition of Flashback Friday, we talked about an awesome simulation game called A Story of a Band. This time around, we’re switching gears to the Tower Defense genre, and our blast from the past comes in the form of Jelly Defense from Infinite Dreams.
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