The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville to gra nawiązująca do popularnego serialu o tym samym tytule nadawanego przez stację Cartoon Network. Gra została stworzona przez studio Radiangames, które specjalizuje się w grach na platformy mobilne i to stety lub niestety po Atomówkach widać. Produkcja to klasyczna metroidvania, więc trzeba przygotować się na spory backtracking.

Growa adaptacja Atomówek nie posiada warstwy fabularnej, gra polega na tym, aby uratować burmistrza oraz pokonać Mojo Jojo, nasze postępy okraszone są schludnymi planszami i to w zasadzie tyle. Żadnego tła fabularnego, żadnych dialogów, nic. Jest to moim zdaniem największy minus tej gry, bo twórcy nijak nie wykorzystali licencji, którą dostali.

Gameplay jest bardzo prosty, aczkolwiek całkiem przyjemny. Na początku gry dysponujemy jedynie podstawowymi umiejętnościami i dopiero przemierzając wiele korytarzy odnajdziemy resztę, która pomoże nam w walce z Mojo Jojo. Gra dysponuje także systemem ulepszeń, zbierając różnego rodzaju znajdźki poukrywane na mapie możemy powiększyć pasek zdrowia oraz „many”. Dodatkowo w grze możemy skorzystać z pięciu perków, które zwiększą odporność Atomówek lub pozwolą im szybciej latać, niemniej jednak w jednej chwili możemy używać jedynie trzech perków. Oczywiście tak jak ulepszenia, znajdźki odblokowujące perki także musimy odnaleźć. Jak wcześniej wspomniałem Atomówki to klasyczna do bólu metroidvania, jest to typ gry, w który główny nacisk kładzie na eksplorację połączoną z walką, aby jednak narzucić jakieś granice to do niektórych plansz dostaniemy się jedynie wtedy, kiedy odblokujemy daną umiejętność lub znajdziemy przełącznik, który otworzy nam przejście. Nastawić się więc trzeba na spory backtracking, ale to normalne w tym gatunku. Nadmienię jeszcze, że każda z Atomówek dysponuje czterema atakami z czego tylko jeden jest inny dla każdej panny.

Grafika w grze jest schludna lecz bardzo prosta, nie ma żadnych graficznych fajerwerków, a tła oraz projekty oponentów są po prostu ubogie. Atomówki graficznie są na poziomie produkcji flashowych. Pogratulować twórcom trzeba natomiast pomysłu, aby pozostawić graczom do wyboru styl graficzny, wybierać możemy między designem ze starej kreskówki, a nowej, jest to ogromny plus dla osób, które czują jakiś sentyment do starej wersji Atomówek lub po prostu nowy, „kwadratowy” styl nie do końca przypadł im do gustu. Dźwięków w grze praktycznie nie ma, więc ciężko się na tym polu rozwodzić.

The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville sprawiło mi sporo radości, niemniej jednak nie mogę tej gry polecić. Atomówki są grą skandalicznie krótką, jedno przejście zajmuje około półtorej godziny. Także sama warstwa techniczna, mimo, że przyzwoita to jednak jest ona po prostu zbyt prostacka jak na coś co chce być grą komputerową. Uważam, że The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville byłoby dobrą flashówką, a żądanie prawie ośmiu euro za tą grę to po prostu przegięcie.

I propose to you, those who read this review, that is those who have a steam account, and are able to buy video games and play them, video games being a form of art, which are played for fun and enjoyment, by those that partake in such things, that you should buy this game, that is to say purchase said product, you won't regret it, and no disappointment will follow.

Sincerely, with curses,

Mojo Jojo.

I was waiting for this game since I first heard of its release.

The game itself plays like a basic bullet hell game with basic movements (up, down, left, right).
It also features all three characters, switchable at all times, every character has its own purpose (for example Blossom can melt ice, Buttercup can shoot through solid walls.......)

I was surprised about how smooth the game actually plays, unfortunately the length of the game is ridiculously small.
If you do not care about clearing every room or collecting every achievement, this game will roughly take 1.5 hrs to complete. Probably around 3 hrs, considering you want to complete everything the game offers. WHICH IS ACTUALLY NOT TOO MUCH.

The story of the game is rather.... meh. It feels like a Newgrounds browsergame (which it was probably intended to be)
You start your journey as Buttercup, realizing that your sisters are missing and you forgot all of your powers. The first 20 minutes of the game consist of collecting your abilities and sisters. (which includes two boss fights), after that you fight another boss to rescue the Major and the last boss is Mojo himself (If there are some other, hidden bosses, I apologize as I didn't clear every room).

5.99 (EUR) might be alot for some people, but I guess the money was well spent. I have no regrets getting the game and if they were actually going to make a sequel with more gameplay, more story depth and more features, I wouldn't mind paying 20 Bucks.

My conclusion is that you can, without a doubt, buy this game without regret if you enjoy either the bullet hell genre or Powerpuff Girls.... and if the developers were to add DLCs or a sequel with more content (more than 2 hrs of content that is) it could easily become the Touhou of western civilization. (lolnope)

Let's make this quick as I'm sure your all up to your eyeballs in Steam Sale games.

If you got given this to play with, give it a go. While the scope for this seems absolutely tiny, it's still a well made, bitesize experience that has gameplay that gels together rather pleasingly.

The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville (or, if you will, TPG:DoT), is a 2D sidescrolling shoot-em-up that reminds me mainly of bullet hell games. Thankfully (or unthankfully depending on the player) its no where near as hard but the idea of flying around with a freedom of movement in order to avoid robot bullets reminds me of very, very little that I've ever played. However, there's also an exploration on a slant of metriodvania style exploration where you are free to explore rooms like a pig looking for truffles in a wedding cake to look for power ups and ability upgrades.

In fact, the Metroid vibe is strong here. The story has Mojo Jojo creating the umteen-hundred and twelth deadly robot to use on Townsville. The girls are called, it's business as usual. Well, until Mojo uses a memory thingy that forces the girls to forget their powers, rendering them to nothing but walking. So, your first few rooms are all about looking for the ability to punch and then to fly. From there, the game picks up at a steady pace.

There's a reason I believe this game works pretty well from a gameplay side, as the two mechanics work well with The Powerpuff Girls in general. Throwing powers around is what they do and exploration takes advantage of their ability to fly. Flying gives the player access to anywhere they choose, making exploration effortless as they only have to move in that direction to check something out. Therefore, a Metriodvania style layout for the game is perfect as exploration isn't much of a chore but can still be rewarding if encouraged.

TPG:ToD happens to reward you with the memories of your forgotten powers (I don't know how, but your fighting a chimpanzee with his brain in a fancy bucket. I just roll with it), tokens to increase your generous power and health meters (at least in Normal Difficulty) along with boosters. These are optional buffs to your game that boosts some aspect of your characters. Things like flying faster, taking less damage, recovering your power meter over time. Handy stuff. There's also the ability to have more than one at a time if you explore enough.

The powers rather neat while they mess with what I remember the girls able to do a bit. Your able to switch between each of the three girls with slight alterations between their powers, once you save Blossom and Bubbles from Mojo's robots. You get six attacks; punches, a standard shot that splits if it hits anything, eyebeams, dashing that can allow you to break through certain bricks in walls and a power unique to each girl. Buttercup has a sound blast thing that fires through walls. Blossom has fireballs that cause heavier damage and melt ice blocks. Bubbles has an ice shot that fires a few shards to slow enemies and, for some reason, deactivate purple force fields. Again, I just rolled with it but it does not seem based in logic at all. You would only find that if someone told you or through random attempts with everything you had at your disposal.

The sixth attack is the ability to charge up your moves for something more devastating. While this seems like a small set of unlockable, they're actually pretty well paced and enjoyable to use, with further additions as you move through the game like deflecting projectiles or improving charge times for attacks.

In fact, length is one of the biggest issues I have with this but it's probably not for what you think. The length is short but that means the level designers don't necessarily run out of ideas before the game is through. Your powered up, fight your way through some environments, look for goodies, fight some bosses and then collect all the stuff. Great, wonderful, brilliant. It gives the feel of a flash game that was put on Steam but a very well constructed one.

Now, I do wish there was more game on offer here but it's honestly not because the experience was bad. It was good. I just think the licence has only been flirted with.

The Powerpuff Girls have a bizzare and colourful rouge's gallery; The Ganggreen Gang, HIM, Fuzzy Lumpkin, Princess Morbucks, Sedusa and! And...I dunno, Quackor? Having just Mojo to fight seems like a major miscalculation as you miss out on one of the best parts of the show. This also robs the game of a possible extra layer of variety. The entire game ought to be one level in a much larger game where, perhaps, you fight the next villain of the week in sequence.

Or, even better, do it Megaman style and have us choose which to go after first, giving different powers and abilities for each villain you go after. Otherwise, the game feels short-changed rather than just short.

Like I said, it's not for being unentertaining. It's for feeling too much like a demo for something much, much larger that utilised more of the Powerpuff lore. And I damn well hope that is what this is.

Radian Games! If your reading, pleeeaaaase make another one of these! There's plenty to be done here and what I've seen is really promising. If I had to be a bit of a git and set you homework, I would suggest you sit down with Super Metriod or Metriod Prime and pick out what they do in terms of exploration as a central concept. I'm kinda inclined to say, the game could use a bit of bite. Maybe only let the players on casual know where the abilities are on the map? It might help, it might not but I am not adverse to a good ol' puzzle to get my shiny-shiny upgrade.

Also, how about adding more from games like Parodious and Touhou. A Fair Challenge was the one thing I couldn't get enough of from TPG:DoT. Obviously, going absolutely nuts would be silly but a little more tactical thinking with enemies that's more involved than 'run up an shoot/punch it' would be fantastic. Afterall, adding more baddies could give us more enemy types. The Ameboys could have henchmen that split into multiples of themselves. Or HIM would demand only certain attacks on certain enemies. Because HIM is meant to be a massive douche-canoe like that.

OK, I'll leave you guys be for now. I'd hug you all for this game but I don't have the plane fare. Just convince Cartoon Network this needs a sequel. Or at least DLC!

Otherwise, I'd say this was a fantastic start. The choice of both visual styles as standard is frankly flattering and I appreciate it greatly. Whatever personality and humour they could squeeze in is almost as charming as the show it's based on but it's hard to capture that completely.

Finally, the music design wants you to know your in a computer game...I don't know how to take that. It's certainly not bad, just odd. The music usually does enough to be distinct enough to indicate that one environment is different from another if the visual style doesn't remind you. I also don't remember them ever fading into the background as they all seemed to have little flourishes that made you take notice of them for just a second then slip back into a quiet groove. The most memorable being the cave areas at the beginning of the game when the music builds and then slows to a strange halt.

It's just the use of NES style electronic elements don't feel right somehow...

Is TPG:DoT worth a go? Well, yes. I'm not 100% sure about the price because of everything about it's length and missed potential that I mentioned before. But, it's a decent romp that will not make you sick of it. As far as I'm concerned, there's enough here to wet the appetite between larger games you might have brought. Or perhaps for a sequel? I leave it up to Radian Games and whoever they consider charming enough to ask Cartoon Network about it.

If you can, pleeeeeeaaaase do it! Plleeeaaase?

It's a pretty bad Powerpuff Girls game, and pretty bad Metroidvania. BUT it is a Powerpuff Girls game AND a Metroidvania, and this is the reason for so many good reviews (Not accounting the many 1-review-only and other suspicious reviews probably done by sockpuppets...)

The name of this game should be
"Powerpuff Girls vs Flying Metal Circles that don't resemble robots at all" : Every enemy is a circle with some pseudo-geometric form over them. Even bosses are giant circles and feel the same.

BAD ANIMATIONS - Heck. The main characters have maybe 20-30 frames. For every thing they do. Yeah, you can play as classic or modern styles, but I would prefer if they had double its animation frames and only one mode.

BAD, LAZILY MADE AND DESIGNED ENEMIES - As discussed above.

BAD DESIGN - Get all powerups, no boss rush or anything, no long-hard-final-section-to-enjoy-all-powerups, Final Boss almost immediately - Giant Circle with Mojo in the middle - The end.

MEDIOCRE SOUNDTRACK

Average Gameplay - heck. THAT saved the game from being a total cr#p. Then, after killing 300 circles, it becomes a chore anyway.

Even for an indie game, it feels rushed.

But... Powerpuff Girls (that are naturally awesome) + Metroidvania style pseudo-sandbox (that is naturally the most awesome kind of game) = even a bad game will have its appeal.

If you're a PPG sucker like me, then buy it on a sale. Then finish once and move it to the "MEH" folder on Steam Library.

I have 2.7 hours on record and I beat the game easily in that time. For me, that's criminally too short for a Metroidvania game, and that is what informs my "no" vote. There's barely enough time to get into it. It's a fun little game, well designed and with decent gameplay; it's a great little diversion for fans of the Powerpuff Girls show. But it's far too short for the price, and fans of the Metroidvania genre will feel like they've just gotten past the intro stage just as the game is ending. This game was ported to mobile with a lower pricepoint, and I think it's much better suited there.

In the end, I think it's worth picking up at <$2.00, but if it's more than that, skip it and go for something else.

Definitely a fun game despite of it being short.

It's pretty reminiscent of Metroid and Castlevania, or Metrovania in this case. And the gameplay is very addicting. What really got me hooked is the option to play as the Classic Style since I'm not quite keen on the Modern Style, but at least there are options and options are cool. :)

There are a couple of gripes I have with this game. The single continuity error that was present in the 2014 special, which is Bubbles using ice powers, is present in this game. I mean come on! Blossom's well known for being the ice princess and Bubbles with her Sonic Scream. Also, is it just me or do some of the voiceovers seem a tad bit lacking in some areas. In any case though, those are minor complaints as the gameplay made 'em forgivable. (Still not pleased with Bubbles having ice powers instead of Blossom though.)

But nonetheless, overall, it's a very fun game and I highly recommend this to any PPG fan out there! :D

EDIT: I have a video review up if you want more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgjeOLeQ5ig

Game is an unashamed Metroid clone. This works both in its favor and against it, in the end.

Good bits:
- flight as movement mode is an interesting change on platforming
- game is short if you like speedrunning or challenges like "beat game without any saves"
- NG+ mode is an interesting concept on paper (start with most powerups on a remixed worldmap and then go nuts).

Bad bits:
- NG+ mode makes a horrible mistake (giving you all the powers but none of the HP/power bar upgrades - you will burn through power so fast and then HAVE FUN WITH MELEE ONLY SUCKER)
- The power system in general. You know how in Metroid a lot of bosses need to be hit by missiles to take damage, but you have the charge beam to negate this? Yeah, this game doesn't have that fallback, a powerless Powerpuff only has her fists. By midgame I began running out of power in boss fights, leading to have to melee them to death (or pray they went into an attack pattern that spawned enemies I could beat up for a random refill chance... powerup drop rates are LOW). Some this works on. Others it's NIGH-IMPOSSIBLE due to their shot patterns.
- Your attacks (until you unlock Bubbles, and only with her most power-consuming one) will only go left/right, with very little vertical lift. Enemies can fire 360 degrees around them or attack you from above/below, and you will be helpless to stop this with any abilities. It is massively cheap. Speaking of...
- Your shots have a limited range. Enemy shots do not. Expect cheap hits from offscreen A LOT, or enemies who hide behind barriers you cannot yet break and fire at you, or ones who kamikaze-charge at you from an unseen point...
- You know what's never been a good idea in any video game ever? Running penalizing you (in this case, the dash consumes power, which makes sense later on when it becomes an invincibility cloak, but the basic dash? no.)

Actually man come to think of it this game is not very good overall, wow, I was going to label this positive but it's actually rather naff. I feel bad that I've literally talked myself out of liking it enough to finish it in a few sittings.

Sadly, I can't really recommend this game, not when there are better Metroidvania and better Bullet Hell games on Steam that can be bought. Which is a real disappointment, as I was looking forward to it.

Looks: The entire game has this feeling of it being rushed, or just poorly designed. The 'cutscenes' routinely look copy-pasted over a blackground, leading to weird perspective issues that are glaringly obvious, and the character 'stamps' look jagged around the edges. This also leads into the game itself, with models frequently clipping above the background elements, which frequently include the Girls' arms, legs and head/hair pushing into the models. The attack effects also look simple, as compared to similar games of the type.

The gameplay is also hard to redeem, trying to place itself between an explorative metroidvania game and a bullet-hell type shooter with lots of enemies and attacks on the screen at once, but it really fails at both. The sense of exploration is cut by the short length of the game, the almost immediate acquisition of your powers and the fact that some items feel outright useless. There's no reason to go out of your way to get the upgrade slots, and so far I've only gotten one health upgrade and have had no problem moving forward.

Combat tries to be functional, but instead ends up being somewhat infuriating with the complete reliance on only two directions in a 360 degree game. The reliance on energy also makes the ability to get into those hectic firefights stunted. It feels like they were trying to add in suspense by keeping you constantly aware of your need for energy, but it simply ends up as aggravating.

In many respects, the game feels like it's close to being a good game. A better variety of powers and puzzles, dual-stick/mouse combat controls to allow for 360 combat, and more polish on the visuals could have made this game incredible despite it's short size. But as it is now, it'll benefit you more to look for a better game in one or the other genres.

Sugar! Spice! And everything nice! Those where ingrdients chosen to create a perfect little girl. But, proffesor Utonium acidently added extra ingridient -- CHEMICAL X!

Remember the 90-s, when live was simpler? And we watched cartoons like those? Well, this is pretty much ye standart arcade shooter with 3 heroines from the show. Nothing realy wrong with the game, but nothing too great either. Good time killer.

And yes, you also play as a bloody powerpuff girls! Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. If you 're a fan (or was) of a show, then you will enjoy it. Also Bubbles is voiced by Tara Strong (heint heint)