Stick Figure Animation: The art-style for this and some other XGen games.Scoring Points: Doubling as these and as currency to buy upgrades.The Siege: Your castle is under attack by an infinite army of stickmen and you have to kill as many as you can while keeping your home safe.Royals Who Actually Do Something: You can defend your castle on your own just fine until the enemy numbers start increasing exponentially.Regenerating Health: Unlocking the Workshop and training your converted units as craftsmen allows your castle to regenerate health over time, instead of having to spend points repairing it after each level.Not the Fall That Kills You…: The primary way to kill enemies early on is by throwing them into the air and watching them plummet to their demise.No Plot? No Problem!: Not until the Prequel at least. Ludicrous Gibs: It doesn't matter whether they die from being shot with an arrow, falling or a Touch of Death spell, the stickmen always get their entire bodies crushed into a little pool of blood that immediately evaporates.Lighter and Softer: The Wii version features arts and crafts-style graphics and not a drop of blood.Hold the Line: The game is called "Defend the Castle", and that's exactly what you do.Having a Blast: A spell allows you to make an enemy explode.Guide Dang It!: Even guides to the game on websites where it was posted often neglected to mention how to defeat the Giant Mooks, and the game certainly doesn't tell you directly (especially since clicking on regular enemies doesn't do too much).Giant Mook: Around stage 14, giant stickmen are introduced which need to be clicked on several times to kill them instead of throwing them into the air.Evil Overlord: Pillage the Village reveals that you're effectively this.One spell allows you to directly convert an enemy to your side.The Temple upgrade allows you to convert enemies to your side by dropping them inside the castle (non-fatally, of course).Due to subpar balancing typical of old Flash games, it's likely that you'll get so powerful you can just leave the game going forever and never lose. Endless Game: You keep going until your castle is destroyed, or until you get bored due to the ability to load your game when you fail.Death of a Thousand Cuts: Unarmed enemies, can destroy your castle by banging on the door with their fists repeatedly.Giant Mooks only stumble slightly and then keep running when you click on them, but do it a few more times and they collapse into a puddle of blood.The castle shows no visible damage until its health bar is drained, at which point you cut to a black game over screen.Three of the castle's four towers have a yellow, red and green flag (for workers, archers, and wizards respectively).The "Kill" spell uses a red icon, the "Detonate" spell uses a yellow icon and the "Convert" spell uses a blue icon. The three spells use red, yellow and blue icons.The Blank: Aside from the giants, none of the stick figures have faces.Battering Ram: The second enemy type to appear carry battering rams for more damage at the cost of lower speed.Anachronism Stew: A medieval castle, Battering Ram users and archers, as well as suicide bombers with dynamite/TNT strapped to themselves.You can send converted units as kamikazes so they can kill bunches of enemies by exploding.Eventually, you face enemies wearing explosives so they can blow themselves up when they reach your castle.
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