Dillon's Rolling Western
Publié le 22 février 2012 sur Nintendo 3DS, Dillon's Rolling Western est un jeu développé par Vanpool et édité par Nintendo, classé parmi les genres aventure, stratégie et tactique. Le joueur y incarne Dillon, un tatou cow-boy dont la mission est de rouler à travers un far west stylisé pour protéger les villages frontaliers des sauvages Grocks. Sur les plaines poussiéreuses de la nouvelle frontière, d'effrayants monstres de roche attaquent les villages et dérobent leur bétail, et c'est à l'armadille justicière de rétablir l'ordre ; si elle parvient à défendre un village contre la menace rocheuse pendant trois jours, son travail est accompli et elle peut reprendre la route vers la ville suivante.
L'accueil critique et des joueurs se manifeste à travers plusieurs avis. L'Official Nintendo Magazine UK a ainsi déclaré : « Dillon's Rolling Western is expensive but this tower defence game is also one of the best 3D games available in the eShop. » De son côté, IGN a salué « A great blend of tower defense and action with loads of personality and a cool hook. » Certains joueurs sur Metacritic ont exprimé leur appréciation en écrivant que « This series is true to the old school Nintendo spirit. A game that is deceptively challenging, and has a unique flair of style. There are a few different thing… » ou encore que « The game really manages to combine well elements of tower defense, action and adventure games. Definitely worth playing. » Le score agrégé renseigné pour ce titre s'élève à 41.32.
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« Dillon's Rolling Western is expensive but this tower defence game is also one of the best 3D games available in the eShop. »
« A great blend of tower defense and action with loads of personality and a cool hook. »
« While it becomes a bit repetitive late in the game, Dillon's Rolling Western is a good fit for anyone tiring of the same old tower defense formula. Combining the charm and wide-open exploration of The Legend of Zelda with town defense proves to be an addictive recipe. The game's cartoony Wild West visuals and terrific sense of humor is the icing on the cake. This is a must-download eShop title for anyone finding their 3DS becoming as dusty as Dillon's trails. »
« Finding your way into the game is harder than it should be. But once you're in, this is one of the best download titles on the 3DS. »
« Dillon's Rolling Western is one of the best 3DS eShop Games, with a delicious graphic style and a gameplay that mixes strategy and action in a functional way. »
« Definitely download this title at the earliest convenience as it is certainly one of the best eShop titles currently available on the 3DS format. »
« Dillon's Rolling Western offers challenges and the mix of action and tactics is fun. However, the game's full potential, especially on the Tower Defence front, is not quite realized and some players will dislike constantly being under pressure. »
« It's an interesting concept, but surprisingly not that polished after all this time. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« This series is true to the old school Nintendo spirit. A game that is deceptively challenging, and has a unique flair of style. There are a few different things going on in this game. Fast paced overworld exploration with a Zelda inspired touch, a cool combat system that rewards you for combos, and a tower defense element tieing it all together. A very underrated Nintendo original IP that should return in the future. »
« The game really manages to combine well elements of tower defense, action and adventure games. Definitely worth playing. »
« Good lord this game is TERRIBLE. It isnt that the idea is bad, but just how they got about it is.. wow. Tower defense? Cool. Resource management in a reasonably sized arena with little side areas? Cool. You got this sonic the hedgehog rolling around thing, and the music/sfx are spot-on for this kinda game? Cool. It feels kinda like any other cartoony series of games, like Crash, Sly Cooper, Sonic and so forth? Cool! But using the bottom screen for this rolling feature is tedious. The mixing of game styles doesnt ever start to feel 'right'. The contrived time limit is obnoxious. The 'tutorial' is unneccesary. The gameplay doesnt evolve as you play through, oddly.. you are just grinding your way over and over. The 3d is good, though. The story/presentation is good. (I mean, for what it is.) Its just that.. well, its like taking the whole spyro game, making travel around the map tedious, putting in what SHOULD be cool features like tower defense, but then those towers dont even. They literally cant even. Why put those towers in, why eVEN HINT at a strategy part, when the game then forces you to manage your time in a rushed fashion and just go kill the enemies, yourself?! Here is a comparison: You are a military general. Oversee the action from above. But also trek around in your boots and engage the enemy, yourself. And you need to do 20 minutes of work in 18. Chop chop, private! Like.. do I call up tech support and the guy on the other end MADE the computer, TROUBLESHOOTS the compute over the phone AND is the guy at the computer doing the hands-on stuff? No. Because that would be stupid. Like this game. Let me do one or the other, roll around or tower defense. You made both into an exercise in frustration. »
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« Dillon's Rolling Western is a tower defense game with a twist! You play as a silent armadillo and roll around defeating enemies in order to protect villages. The controls are simple and responsive with a few simple taps. The game is only $9.99 as well, with ten different stages for you to complete, each spanning over three in-game days (about 30min-1hr). Some of the maps can be confusing, but rolling around is smooth to control! It is a challenging title, but I highly recommend it! There aren't many neat western games out there, so this is a must-buy for those who are curious to see the new life that was breathed into tower defense! »
« Great gameplay and characters. It's a pretty unique game, meshing tower defense and action combat but it really works well. The stages are set up into two parts, day and night. During the day you roll around and gather materials to upgrade the town walls, feed pig creatures and set up turrets near the monsters lairs. Then during the night you must defend the town from attack by the monsters, rolling out to meet the ones that aren't destroyed by towers and taking them in combat. I'd recommend it as a essential eshop game to own and play. »
« [SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.] »
« Dillon's Rolling Western is a unique and very well made game. It is very strange that Destructoid's official score for this is 40%. As you can see from most of the reviews it is much better. The best feature of Dillon's Rolling Western is the combination of multiple gameplay styles into one game. It is a tower defense game, a beat em up game, and a resource management game. It does well in all three. Controls might need some time to get them right every time because to reach peak efficiency you need to learn how to roll fast every time with the stylus as the enemies who look like some stone based pokemon creatures assault a American style western town populated by cute animal characters. Potential drawback that could lower enjoyment of this game is after 3 or 4 attacks on the town it becomes much more difficult to defend because you, Dillon the Armadillo, have to roll between two directions to defend them little innocent critters and the sheep from the slaughter! Another fun thing they added is putting collectibles all over when you roll around, finding mines/dungeons to get some treasures. Yea it is good. ps: Main character Dillon resembles Yul Brenner the actor who played the bald cowboy in old Westerns. »
