Maybe I'm spoiled, but my first introduction to the tower defense genre was PixelJunk Monsters. Monsters is one of my favorite games of all time, and a game that really set the bar high for the entire genre. Playing Ninjatown just made me appreciate all the things that Q Games did right with PixelJunk Monsters. The towers (ninjas) all felt nearly identical aside from the standard melee vs. ranged unit. Everytime I unlocked a new unit, it felt like a small variation on a theme rather than a new wrinkle in the gameplay. Ultimately, I walked away from this game bored after a couple of hours thinking that I may never give another tower defense game a try after being burned by every game that isn't PixelJunk Monsters. I gave Ninjatown the extra half star for the humorous writing (that ultimately couldn't do much to take the sting away from the lacking gameplay).
