Dammit Game of the Week: Pillage the Village
Back in October, Grundy posted a game called Defend Your Castle. During my years in high school, this was my favorite flash game. I used to play it after teaching my computer teacher how to use Microsoft Office. That was until our school’s internet Nazi, locked down the internet because you can get viruses from playing Flash games. I think he should’ve been more worried about the giant holes in the “security” of our servers. (Sidenote: A delayed thank you to all the geeks in school who took down the network there periodically to pay the bastard back for cutting off our games.) Anyway, back to the game.
Pillage the Village is the new prequel, prequels are in now, to Defend Your Castle. It features updated graphics, as in the villagers that you are splattering against the ground aren’t stick figures anymore, a somewhat interactive environment, you can drop the hovels on the little peoples, and multiple types of villagers ranging from your poor peasant to a screen climbing ninja. You can choose to be good or evil and buy powers with the coins you collect in “taxes” (Medieval tax collecting is fun!). Believe me, it’s more fun to be evil!
The controls are a little more complicated than Defend your Castle, but really aren’t that hard. Your mouse allows you to interact (meaning pickup and chuck) with villagers and other objects. The number keys (1-8) are hot keys for your spell. Holding the space bar initiates the gesture casting for spells. The up and down keys (or W and S) allows you to move the object you are holding in depth. And finally escape, “p”, or Pause/Break, will pause the game and bring up the menu. Really, all you need to know is to use the mouse.
Commence Pillaging!
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