Well done to Yumpy who correctly guessed that yesterday’s haiku by Arky was Blaster Master. That was a tough one!
Today’s haiku comes from Zar!
Enemies coming.
Get ready to defend man,
Repair what is lost.
Good luck!
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CoD: WaW (Zombies?)
I think this might be Rampart.
I like it, makes sense to me.
Good job
How the hell did he get itHa! Thanks, It was the distinct sequence you had there that twigged it for me. Enemies coming, defend, then repair. That’s a bit different to most tower defence games (where you normally build before enemies come, and rebuild, rather than repair).
I originally had a line about a fleet in there, but i thought that might make it too obvious
Defense Grid: the awakening.
Not sure about repairing, but seems to me this haiku could be about lots of tower defense style games.
Then again, it could even be something like Mass Effect.
Command and Conquer
Some of these Haikus seem a little on the overly ambiguous side.
Seems so, but there’s usually a keyword to it
Wow, this one would describe many games!
Truth. Could be applied to so many different genres too.
Soooo…..Fieldrunners?
Can’t be Fieldrunners, enemies don’t fight back.
Lol. It’s unlikely to be that then. I’ve honestly never played it, as I’m not really a fan of tower defence. I just googled “random tower defense games”.
Meanwhile, a lot of these really ambiguous sounding ones have some kind of very particular clue in the wording.
For example, take the Earthworm Jim one a few days ago. It sounds incredibly generic, unless you happen to know the princess was called “Whatshername”. Likewise the one for Demon’s Souls sounded quite vague, unless you knew pancake face in the hub area kept saying “so the world might be mended” over and over.
Makes you wonder. There’s probably some game out there with little dudes screaming “REPAIR WHAT IS LOST! REPAIR WHAT IS LOST!”
They kinda have to be a bit ambiguous, to throw people off a bit. Not that it worked today.
Biker Mice from Mars.
im getting tired… ive lost count of how many times ive done this 🙁
These Martians Kick butt
They need a good mechanic
to help save the earth
I love that you do this!
This is pretty much any base defence game… I’m gonna go with The Horde.
Bloons.
Army of Darkness defense?
Gears of War Horde mode
Lock’s Quest
Plants vs Zombies
Battlefield, as you can repair tanks, Defend man from some sort of Terror group or Russians and those enemies are always incoming in Multiplayer
Soul Caliber III
I’m betting it’s one of the ones on this list.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=lost