Okay wow this is such a fantastic homage and IMPROVEMENT on the Plants vs Zombies formula that I wish more games would challenge!
Firstly let me get the few little issues out the way I had with the game. BLOOM. Bloom is way too damn high, why does everything need to glow? It's cool in moderation but I don't really see the need to have bloom on the health bar or hazard stripes. If it's a design choice that's fine. I just don't like bloom in general and always turn it off.
Not really an issue but... WHY ARE THERE HIDDEN/SECRET SKINS!? HELLO!? I accidentally died because I had to walk away from my PC and when I came back the mech was GUNDAM COLOURS!? WHAT! Then after refreshing 20+ times and even letting myself die again I could not get it to change back to a gundam. I even tried pressing different buttons on the start screen and could not replicate it. Am I going insane? Did I hallucinate this?
Pause button would have been nice, getting my mouse stuck in the game is a bit of a minor pain but not a massive issue.
Okay now that all that is out of the way...
HOLY GODS OF ALL THAT IS AND WAS. HOW DID YOU GUYS PULL THIS OUTTA YOUR *** IN SUCH A SHORT TIME FRAME?
WOW, just wow. I love defence games and as soon as I realised it was a lane based defence game I was 100% locked in. Not only am I defending a cool sci-fi version of Tokyo (which looks awesome) I also need to build oil rigs to generate income to fund my defence capabilities. It basically is the Plants vs Zombies formula just scaled (hehehe) up to 11.
Character controls great, running around and building stuff is SUPER simple and easy to understand and pick up. The enemies are super cool shark kaiju and don't think I didn't notice those little (giant?) metal bucket hats on some of them. Fantastic little touch.
I will say I found the game SUPER easy. Maybe because I know how these games work but I just built like 5 rigs at the start and immediately had MILLIONS and MILLIONS to spare. I could then just run around and throw down 2 max power turrets with walls infront of them in every lane and I was set for the rest of the game.
Graphics, I don't even know what to say. It's literally perfect the design, the cell shading. The animation. Not a single pixel out of place from the moving water, to the floating HUD to the awesome cityscape and Tokyo tower and MT.Fuji in the background.
Again the audio is just absolutely on point, the SFX and ambience of the turrets firing and the music was so well placed that I literally cannot find a single thing to complain about.
I honestly don't know what else to say other than I love this so much. I would 100% buy this game and I want to see a full version of it in the future. The fact that this is the first game I've played in GMTK is insane and anything else is going to have a really difficult time comparing with this.
HOW DO I GET THE SECRET SKINS? ARE THERE MORE? THERE MUST BE NEON GENESIS EVANGELION SKINS!?