Indeed, your role as Paladog is essentially limited to back up. Though his appearance doesn't alter the basics of play – the routine of waiting for gauges to fill before you can send out troops, each one coming with his own level of power and strength that can be upgraded from one level to the next – it's a subtle enough shift to give the whole experience an added spark.
Indeed, Paladog does away with the notion of an actual castle to defend – in most of the stages, defending Paladog himself is the key, with the game allowing you to trundle backwards and forwards via on-screen pads, as well as fire a burst of magic at your decomposing foe.įrom the very first level, it's clear that Paladog's role in all this is something of a masterstroke. Your goal is to take down each and every solider of the dead as they march towards you. Yes, Paladog is set far in the future, when humanity's greed and discontent has resulted in the annihilation of the species. The aim is to ensure the world – now governed by a collection of mild mannered animals living in harmony – isn't overrun by by the planet's former rulers. This means that as well as directing the assembled masses of your army you also have its leader – Paladog, riding proudly atop a horse – to command.
Though the basis of what's delivered here closely follows the already established rules of a castle versus castle sim, it comes with one major bonus: rather than merely dictating play from afar, you control the war from the field itself. Paladog feels a bit like the result of a PR campaign on behalf of those very same generals. They're often viewed as cold-hearted desk-bound killers, happily sending out men to die on a whim and looking on indifferently as the death toll mounts. In wars both old and new, military generals have earned something of a bad name for themselves.
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