Thank you for showing your preferences in your video!! Dusk Chateau was really really reaaaaaaally difficult for us to balance, we struggled a lot trying to win that, so yeah, it makes sense for us that you put it as the tier god. Vampiresas came up as a joke from one of our artists, and we liked it, so we put them in-game!
Pandaemonium was particularly bad in an earlier version because Moloch's death didn't erase remaining enemies and the Demon Legions would still spawn if they hadn't come out yet. And to make things worse, the Demon Legions could infinitely duplicate, along with its copies, which would gain 20% more HP upon duplication. People should be proud of themselves if they beat Pandaemonium in that version.
prefered the old version. it was harder. Demon legions also had very high armour, i recall it was immunity to physical attack? if not it was = great. Now IGS nerfed them to high armour. Lame; on replaying Pandaemonium veteran with the worst champ ( the archer ) i completed it first try, no hearts lost. A sorry fate of what should have remained a extremely hard, final encore level.
Awesome job! :) Thanks for mentioning me and others at the beginning!! The descent into madness at 11:22 is epic. You trolling Cozynez like I did is very nicely done too haha!
Legitimately though, Otil Farmlands is my fave level from Vengeance. Prolly cause it's the one of the best 'sandbox' levels where you can really do any strategy you want.
there is 1 good thing about darklight depths. just one. it is great for farming the highlander achievement. but apart from that, this level can die in a hole.
It's a level to test your patience, designed sloppily to make you feel the infuriating anger of having to fight 50 finnish sniper guy every wave. It's not the game at this point but to teach you how warfare can be mind numbingly frustrating just like winter war.
Oh, wow! I did not know about this. I am so late, but thanks for mentioning me and the other Kingdom Rush youtubers in the video. Much appreciated and a nice list you have put together for levels. Well done!
The only hero that can even only hope to damage the deathcoils is Bruxa with her skulls. At least in mobile, her skulls can attack even if she is moving.
Castle Blackburn deserves to be here, it's the hardest level while also requiring a solution that is highly diverse in terms of towers, hero choices etc. Also the enemy variety and level layout is great
Ngl Castle Blackburn was fairly easy. Not a cakewalk, but the boss is fairly easy (compared to Moloch), and most enemies don’t have a threatening presence unlike pandemonium. The early game is also way easier in general.
The Dark Tower holds a special place in my heart. First KR game I ever played, and it was so cool when he became a demon. Took me so many tries, but easily my most fave level.
Y'know, I feel like the deathcoils could have been an interesting idea. turn down their damage, lessen their health a bit, tie them to a less lack luster bunch of enemies... And now you may have something kinda cool, now you still have to strategise on how you're going to kill them with that much range but at the same time don't trivialize your units and hero
oh dang, i actually loved rotwick lol. first hearing the music and then seeing the waves upon waves of enemies really made it feel like an epic last stand, and although youre right in that late game is piss easy if you spam one tower, i honestly personally felt that i earned it considering how i heroically held back the hordes of darkness for the first couple of waves (which i did find to be quite hard) where i didnt have a tesla. i totally get your criticism, but man i cant get over how cinematic the whole level felt when i first played it.
@@Shyguymask cant speak for frontiers since KR1 is the only one ive played lol (i suck at TD games), but rotwick is the first impression of that side storyline, being the first level, so to me it just felt so much more intense ngl. but obvs thats just my subjective preference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@Shyguymask When I play that level I many times defeated because my towers was weak and enemies was very fast and dealing many damage(especially wererats and giant rats Werevolves and lycans are fast has many health and also deals many damage)
I loved the undead post-campaign in KR1. But I guess you're right that Rotwick is too easy. I thought it was fine because it was just setting up the campaign and showing you that the undead often rely on overwhelming numbers to win. Besides, since I hadn't been playing for long, I was still figuring out the special tower mechanics and hadn't discovered the essential tesla death field yet. As for Lucrezia in the similar KRF undead post-campaign, her voice may be obnoxious, but based on her lines, I think she's literally just trying to be weird. She seems like a sassy type and she is hugely useful for that level. Also, who else knew that she and Danté are in love?
Personally, I love playing Duredhel Outskirts. It was probably the second hardest level for me to complete and I love the scenery of the twilight elves maps. Baj'nimen is super fun to beat also.
I think my favourite level is the last main jungle level from Frontiers, because you can start it just by building mecha and survive about 5 waves with it and it's super fun after that.
Otil Farmlands has helped me a lot. I think it's a good level ... for farming achievements Seriously, you can just use a ranged hero and 2 Shadow Archers at the exit and the rest is whatever tower you need the achievement for. I even did a run with Dark Knights only.
Shyguymask: *[uploads a video about Kingdom Rush, going in-depth through different strategies and what makes a good level]* Me, having never played a Kingdom Rush game in my life: "Ohh, so it's like that huh, I understand everything now." *[doesn't understand anything at all]*
I always thought I was the only one who played flash games such as Knightmare Rider and Gemcraft. Everyone else grew up on consoles, I grew up on free flash games on the school computers. I’m so glad that flash games are getting noticed by people now
Won't go into deep details but Wizard's Landing and Bleak Valley are some of the new worst levels in the series. Meanwhile I'd say Corruption Valley and Treasure Island are new contenders for the top 5 best levels. Treasure Island in particular would easily be in the top 3 in my eye if it wasn't for the obnoxiously tight, borderline unfair money stealing "gimmick". But in general it's weird how amazing Pirate Kings campaign is, especially compared to Hammerhold.
@@Shyguymask So... Do any stages from Undying Fury make it? Admittedly none of the levels stood out to me. Also I hate Bleak Valley with every cell of my body.
Im kind of surprised that you didn't include any of the vengeance mini campaign bosses as some of the worst levels. They are overall badly designed featuring really slow and boring enemies, having the level get most of its difficulty from just one or two waves, and very lazily made easy bossfights (like the ice queen or the king frog whatever). Other than the great video. I agree with most of your points.
Couldn’t agree more, the two ghosts were the easiest and most boring boss fight in all of kingdom rush, it was one of the worst boss fights in the entire series. The only mini campaign boss fight that was good in krv was the Pond of the Sage, it was actually somewhat challenging. Otherwise, Ironhide had a chance to revive the game with the new campaign they just added to krv but they failed utterly. Almost no new enemies, reusing enemy ideas, and making the levels beyond easy, boss was way over designed and still wasn’t even challenging or cool?
The worst is the Frontiers last campaign level, because the boss destroys your towers, so it converts a Tower Defense into a Real Time Strategy, but without money to re-build. The way to beat is by build only cheap towers (few barracks and all archer towers), so you save money to quick rebuild at the end. Basically you are forced into a cheap war instead a full one.
I did lose the first few times I played it, nevermind in veteran mode, since I didn't think about saving up money and I got unlucky that the boss destroyed my most invested towers
i mean i wouldn't say it's the worst i would say it makes the gameplay more interesting and forces you to play differently then you would ussually without limiting what strategy you can use
@@darkcat6530 I understand that concept when in Starcraft or most strategy games, you have only few units to 'escape' from somewhere, or 'rescue' someone, etc. But those 'special stages' are in the early, or middle campaign, not at the end! The end should test the best you can do with the mechanics of the genre you are playing.
What an incredible list...in a good way! I'm surprised at some of the choices, but I'll just say, THANK YOU for making #4 worst the Duskwood Outpost. Those trees are dumb as hell, lol.
I wasn’t sure about Otil farmlands being terribly easy, then I tried the set up in the video on IMPOSSIBLE difficulty, so 2 dark knight towers, a coal thing and 2 bone flingers, I had 5000 gold left at the end and only had one enemy nearly slip through
I actually love otil farmland. While it might bot be one I use for fun it’s perfect for sandbox. You have a miniboss to test single target damage of towers or hero’s, many weak enemies to test crowd control and it’s the best to test towers since any strategy works.
Surprisingly enough, I didn't get much trouble with the Saurian Deathcoils (veteran level without object, I play on Switch). A bunch of crossbows with barrage and/or falconer at the entrance and that's it. Honestly, I did like this level, far from being as terrible as what I thought.
I just can't get the original volcano area music out of my head, every so often I would hear a something similar and then this would be stuck my head for at least a couple minutes. Oh well. The music's not bad, just very short. Neat video, brings back memories. A top video using only text, was an interesting read/watch.
i actually liked darklight depths, thought it was a fun challenge after quite a few attempts. i figured out a pretty balanced setup-no archmage spam needed-with a couple ways to spawn kill the coils back. i see how it could be pretty frustrating though
I'm considering if Otil's Farmland is the worst one out of them all instead. After all, being boring is probably worst than being frustrating, wouldn't you agree?
Darklight Depths was actually my favorite map growing up as a kid I never relied on my hero's and would just spam mages and archers. Edit: My favorite part was hearing the death sound effect of the Saurian Broodguard's falling off the cliff 🤣🤣🤣
Oh man, I didn't even think about forgoing barracks entirely for darklight depths. I put so much effort into killing the deathcoils at the start before they could kill my units. If archmage spam works on the highest difficulty, then that would have been much simpler.
here is a list of some of the most painful kingdom rush levels for me Icewind Pass Forsaken Valley Ancient Necropolis Buccaneers Den Crimson Valley Beresad's Lair The Sunken Citadel Bonesburg The Crystal Lake The Unseelie Court Mactan's Retreat Shrine of Elynie Duredhel Outskirts Tainted Pit City of Lozagan every single kingdom rush vengeance elite level
interesting... i kinda liked the deathcoil level... i mean sure it was obnoxious but if u dont let them stack up its fine... just shift alric from side to side and have full crossbow bolts on both sides and a necromancer to make targets for deathcoils and stall them...
My favorite and hardest level is Castle Blackburn..... Because we have 3 ways, and 2 with enemy skeleton and zombie spawns very close to exit, we have Abominations, barracks and hero killers Black Hags, and fallen knights with spectral knights ( and you really need to mix you attacks), for me the best level
I love the saurian levels. The transcendence of Fantasy into Science Ficiton is what I found the most compelling because it was done right. From a challenge/difficulty standpoint, the invisibility and brutal butchery of your soldiers from afar abilities posed significantly novel challenges.
I like darklight depths and the other saurion levels. I really like when we are given unique towers like the dwarf barracks. I think the enemies are cool, especially the big boss lizards. The snipers make it more appealing to not clump all your defenses in one part of the map and make use of stall features that aren't barracks, like the mechs oil slick. Once you have adequate defenses up top you can sit pretty with your barracks further down. I think there are fun ways to handle that level without getting frustrated and just resorting to mage towers everywhere. That being said the sniper guys still could have been implemented a bit better, maybe if the dwarf barracks had a special upgrade that gave them a chance to deflect projectiles back at enemies or something. But regardless, while certainly not the best, I dont think the level is awful.
The deathcoil isn't that horrible, yes they kill heroes and units a lot, but i personally think that they are the easiest unit to juggle, when i play that level, i usually just let them attack and when i hear the shooting sound, i just move my heroes away. And i always use captain blackthrone for the most efficent/profit since you may need to move him a lot of time, he may pass a lot of enemies and i think his utility ability can be utilized the most efficent in this level
I noticed with the death coils enemy if you use your hero to bait the shots and then move it then all of the deathcores will be caught in an endless cycle of shooting at your hero and missing, making it so they can't move.
@@Shyguymask Well vengeance postgame isn't any better The one with the anurians had decent enemies and was quite challenging in comparison to the rest of the game but the boss was pretty lazy The winter is coming is the same scenery as the second main campaign area but with slow boring enemies that don't even synergies with each other in the slightest and also it has a pitiful boss battle And the cursed bargain is the worst of them since half the enemies are recycled from the older games and the other half are passable at best and the boss was pretty mediocre
@@eyadamr1566 Origins had one good mini-campaign and two mediocre at best ones. Vengeance had two good mini-campaigns and one eh one. If we're going to complain about scenery, then that makes the Hulking Rage campaign from Origins worse. Hulking Rage is a lot better overall (wave/enemy design) but you get my point. Recycling enemies isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's interesting to fight returning enemies with completely new towers if not mechanics. Even though most enemies in the Shadowmoon & Blackburn campaigns are the same, they don't feel repetitive or "the same" because towers and heroes are very different. Same thing with the Cursed Bargain mini-campaign, except there's not as many recycled enemies in comparison. Not to mention Cursed Bargain has some of the more interesting enemies in the series, having a big emphasis on taking armor/resistances seriously and making the player rely less on splash damage. And honestly, the boss is more interesting than half of the bosses in the series.
My least favorite level is definitely Ancient Necropolis from KR1. It’s because fallen knights have such an annoying design- an enemy that has high armor turns into an enemy with full magic resistance and killaura when it dies. Also, the entire level is just managing two separate paths. As for my favorite, it is Denas’ Castle from KRV due to how many cool elements it has. Vez’nan, the archers shooting at your troops from the wall, the mortar, the stage transition, etc. However, I didn’t find the boss to be very fun.
I think it's the opposite, fallen knights bring a very interesting challenge to the table. It makes you think thrice about where you position your physical and magic towers around the map. If you struggle with them, check out Ignus.
@@Shyguymask Alr I tried the level like a week ago and I was like "immune? Well artillery ignores half armor so who cares" 5 minutes later i realize "wait,you can't ignore half of immune armor" then I finally built mages, apparently the only thing that was killing them was the reflect damage from the barracks and reinforcement Yeah I'm dumb Edit: holy sh- the amount of spelling errors I had to correct was insane
I liked darklight depths for the single reason that since i was relying on bruxa to kill the razorwings, it was the only level that made me have to constantly move my hero which was a noticable change
Otil Farmlands is easy I agree, yet it is a great level to mess around, work on tactics and test out weapons. I still feel guilty for killing Joe Jenkins, his scream is saddening. 😂
Darklight depths is pretty tough but I was relatively able to do it with like strong hitting towers in the center and crossbow forts and mechas for the snipers
4:53 nightmare map in heroic mode, duskwood outpost heroic is easily the hardest level in origins cuz of high micromanagement demand (along with dwaraman gates iron) 8:02 why are mage towers even there? I NLL'd the level, heroless, with full tesla (veteran ofc)
To be fair, with their max HP upgraded they can survive the explosion attack from Abominations, and Assassins can't dodge stuff like Death Aura anyway.
@@Shyguymask Yeah they get a little more use in postgame. Deirdre is kind of a must to maximize their potential. They're just too expensive to be viable especially since assassin's can handle most situations better. Also templars don't really gel as well with Frontier's design
I’m surprised the Halloween levels from vengeance weren’t anywhere on here. Either hate the ghosts immune to physical, or love the lamps that one shot them. Personally I hate those levels.
My favorite map is Emperspike Depths. Umbra is amazing boss. It's so cool how it explodes and reassembles. Exploding towers with a single glance also makes him very powerful.
just spam archmages for darklight depths as shown in the video. They can kill anything, and xyzzy won't even make it past the top portion of the map. Your hero and the dwarves will constantly die, but who needs them
Meep. I didn't play enough Kingdom Rush to make it to _any_ title's postgame, but I'm guessing Deathcoils are so brutal you can't even limit them to _exactly one wave_ so they'd be a miniboss instead of the Kingdom Rush equivalent of a Terry Trap.
I’m surprised by your number 1 worst pick! I actually love that level and find it fun to work around the enemies. Here's a good example of being able to have fun with the danger they pose to your units: th-cam.com/video/DVhpBDj_ifc/w-d-xo.html
Well besides the Necromancer Tower whose skeletons haven't done a lot at all, there wasn't even a single Barracks tower build. Another DWAARP or Battle Mecha instead of that Necromancer tower would have been arguably better.
@@Shyguymask Skeletons are good safety nets just in case they need to block enemies, but if they don't, it's not like the whole tower was a waste. The Necromancer's ranged attack is really helpful against the flying enemies that come out. If I had a barracks tower instead, not only would the early enemies overrun them, but late-game they'd have barely any usefulness. The level might not be fun for you because you don’t get to build the strategies you like to build which is totally valid. I personally enjoy working around not being able to use barracks.
@@Voduke789 Don't need to block enemies if you can just clean them off. As far as I could see pretty much only small enemies at low or md HP made it to the skeletons. A second Battle Mecha would have been able to simply clean them off while still being able to target flying enemies with Wasp missiles, not to mention provide stalling with Oil Disposal.
@@Voduke789 I don't see how. The money is more than worth it and it will perform a lot better than Necromancer, and you can switch to another hero that provides damage and crowd control to an extent since you won't be using necros or barracks in that case.
Aww, bummer. The saurian levels are my favorite part of frontiers. You battle these menacing looking dragonkin who fight using futuristic tech, unique abilities like warping and going invisible and whose introduction comic makes them look like they're about to drop the sickest metal album on you. Honestly, battling them is so much fun without feeling like a nuisance, like those annoying tribal people and their annoying poison darts, cannibals, barrier shamans and necromancers
I actually like the enemies themselves (Deathcoils aside), but the level themselves were just lacking. The scenery was really boring, the difficulty was lacking because Mecha is blatantly broken and only kept in check by enemies like Bloodshells and ghosts/phantom, and the level design and gimmicks weren't as interesting as with the Desert and Jungle levels.
The saurian snipers would be a lot nicer if they had a reload time where they walked down the path, most of the time, as shown in the video, they just end up grouping at the begging of the path and are completely uninteractive.
Thank you for showing your preferences in your video!! Dusk Chateau was really really reaaaaaaally difficult for us to balance, we struggled a lot trying to win that, so yeah, it makes sense for us that you put it as the tier god. Vampiresas came up as a joke from one of our artists, and we liked it, so we put them in-game!
I love how you guys still come up and follow almost every kingdom rush content on youtube, thanks for the great game ironhide, we love you
Worst or best levels you guys are still creating a masterpiece. Goodjob to you. The only tower defense games I love.
Nothing to say except good job and i love ur work
My dad had the hardest time with the vampiresas, but it’s a really fun enemy imo!
I like the story behind Blackburn, hopefully we can expand the universe further and thickening the plot
Barracks: Stop spawn killing
Deathcoils: Stop spawning
AHahaha
Deathcoils:How many times we have to teach you this lesson, old man?
Ikr death coils is annoying plus they spawn in big numbers >:(
And if there's too many of them heroes don't stand a chance even at level ten they'll get spawn killed most of the time
@Lawson Kylen why do you comment that here
Alternate title: Man complains about one unit for five minutes.
Pandaemonium was particularly bad in an earlier version because Moloch's death didn't erase remaining enemies and the Demon Legions would still spawn if they hadn't come out yet. And to make things worse, the Demon Legions could infinitely duplicate, along with its copies, which would gain 20% more HP upon duplication. People should be proud of themselves if they beat Pandaemonium in that version.
Easy, just spam nuclear bombs 😂😅
whelp, is it on flash? if so fare me good luck...
@@jraff2735 It was on Steam version. They changed it later but I can't quite remember when they did it.
@@serenedreemurr a premium version of flash it is then, when I'm offline... yay.
prefered the old version. it was harder. Demon legions also had very high armour, i recall it was immunity to physical attack? if not it was = great. Now IGS nerfed them to high armour. Lame; on replaying Pandaemonium veteran with the worst champ ( the archer ) i completed it first try, no hearts lost. A sorry fate of what should have remained a extremely hard, final encore level.
No one:
Bravebark: I’m SmArTeR tHaN tHe AvErAgE tReE
I'd trust him more to add a "Hero Mute" option to the game before Ironhide does
@@Shyguymask that is brutal.
@@Shyguymask Haha I just loved that clip
@@Shyguymask I mean, seriously. Btd6 has it.
Vietnam tree: FINNALY a Worthy opponet
"Kid, i don't have much time. The aliens-"
"Origins doesn't have a lot of music, huh..."
(Hidden text)
I can't find the second one
Nvm found it
@@luckylaniang5574 where
@@eliaswilliams971 5:47
I cant find the first one, timestamp anyone?
Awesome job! :) Thanks for mentioning me and others at the beginning!!
The descent into madness at 11:22 is epic.
You trolling Cozynez like I did is very nicely done too haha!
YOOO MORGAN
@@i_got_the_wrong_neighbourh1651 sup!!
Morgan! Shyguymask and you have restored the KR community!
@@therealmorganofficial hi
is this the real morgan ?
Yeah, but otil farmlands has goku farmer, thus making it the best in the series
who would win:
Farmer with a shotgun from dragon ball z
OR
Joe Jenkins from kindom rush?
Find out in the next episode of kingdom rush z!
Legitimately though, Otil Farmlands is my fave level from Vengeance. Prolly cause it's the one of the best 'sandbox' levels where you can really do any strategy you want.
Fun fact you can fight him by killing all the sheep in the level
Yeah but denas' castle and storm atoll
@@ozzylepunknown551 yea but Joe Jenkins
there is 1 good thing about darklight depths. just one. it is great for farming the highlander achievement. but apart from that, this level can die in a hole.
I liked Xyzzy neverending slamming at my big-swords bois
It's a level to test your patience, designed sloppily to make you feel the infuriating anger of having to fight 50 finnish sniper guy every wave.
It's not the game at this point but to teach you how warfare can be mind numbingly frustrating just like winter war.
That Highlander achievement is hard for me to get it. Thanks for the tip !
For a second I thought this series would die, glad it’s finally back
He’s finally back, performing for you!
If you know the words, you can join in too.
what do you mean? its just a board game
@@Davidpoland2005 cmon you ruined the dk rap
Actually fun fact: Ironhide is actually in the middle of the development for a kingdom rush board game
Oh, wow! I did not know about this. I am so late, but thanks for mentioning me and the other Kingdom Rush youtubers in the video. Much appreciated and a nice list you have put together for levels. Well done!
4:05 R.I.P Skeleton Knight.
The only hero that can even only hope to damage the deathcoils is Bruxa with her skulls. At least in mobile, her skulls can attack even if she is moving.
bruh multiple heroes are good you just have to damage them amidietly on the start of the map
This was my tactic in this level 😂😂
@@babyhandlebreak maybe he is talking about free hero
@@Roxasora123 well dependes Alric is still nice becouse he has high armour and can spawn sandwarriors that help stall.But im just saying
sha'tra can also take them down with his explosion on death, so I prefer him. Bruxa is amazing at shredding everything else
Castle Blackburn deserves to be here, it's the hardest level while also requiring a solution that is highly diverse in terms of towers, hero choices etc. Also the enemy variety and level layout is great
yeah castle blackburn was epic
2nd hardest*. Pandemonium is slightly harder
@@arcitatious cap.
Ngl Castle Blackburn was fairly easy. Not a cakewalk, but the boss is fairly easy (compared to Moloch), and most enemies don’t have a threatening presence unlike pandemonium. The early game is also way easier in general.
Third hardest
Saraglz lair is really hard@@arcitatious
Ahh yes pandemonium the level that I restarted 50 times to beat
How much range do you want?
Deathcoils: yess!!
"Everything the rock touches is our kingdom. And the rock touches everything."
The Dark Tower holds a special place in my heart. First KR game I ever played, and it was so cool when he became a demon. Took me so many tries, but easily my most fave level.
Y'know, I feel like the deathcoils could have been an interesting idea. turn down their damage, lessen their health a bit, tie them to a less lack luster bunch of enemies... And now you may have something kinda cool, now you still have to strategise on how you're going to kill them with that much range but at the same time don't trivialize your units and hero
For me I think deathcoils could be more tankier (similar hp to a redshell or something), have a longer attack speed, come in smaller quantities.
Yeah, the final level in vengeance really is just good, I lost here near the end and wasn’t even mad, whole level fun to replay, good video as usual
completely agree. the only problem is that it takes sooo darn long to do
@@somethinguncreative4475 Fair enough
oh dang, i actually loved rotwick lol. first hearing the music and then seeing the waves upon waves of enemies really made it feel like an epic last stand, and although youre right in that late game is piss easy if you spam one tower, i honestly personally felt that i earned it considering how i heroically held back the hordes of darkness for the first couple of waves (which i did find to be quite hard) where i didnt have a tesla. i totally get your criticism, but man i cant get over how cinematic the whole level felt when i first played it.
The theme and scenery are awesome, but every other halloween-themed level in KR1 and Frontiers are much, much better.
@@Shyguymask cant speak for frontiers since KR1 is the only one ive played lol (i suck at TD games), but rotwick is the first impression of that side storyline, being the first level, so to me it just felt so much more intense ngl. but obvs thats just my subjective preference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like it too! It feels like you're witnessing the aftermath of a downfall. The music makes it more depressing
@@Shyguymask When I play that level I many times defeated because my towers was weak and enemies was very fast and dealing many damage(especially wererats and giant rats Werevolves and lycans are fast has many health and also deals many damage)
@@Shyguymask nightfang swale iron
impossible
My favourite level is Mactan's retreat from KRO. It's just a huge amazing level, that really does not have any paths, but one gigant field.
I loved the undead post-campaign in KR1. But I guess you're right that Rotwick is too easy. I thought it was fine because it was just setting up the campaign and showing you that the undead often rely on overwhelming numbers to win. Besides, since I hadn't been playing for long, I was still figuring out the special tower mechanics and hadn't discovered the essential tesla death field yet.
As for Lucrezia in the similar KRF undead post-campaign, her voice may be obnoxious, but based on her lines, I think she's literally just trying to be weird. She seems like a sassy type and she is hugely useful for that level. Also, who else knew that she and Danté are in love?
Well I figured out about that last bit recently during a The Real Morgan community post…
Everyone: is the series over?
SGM: *there is another*
Otil Farmlands is clearly the best stage because of Joe Jenkins smh
Personally, I love playing Duredhel Outskirts. It was probably the second hardest level for me to complete and I love the scenery of the twilight elves maps. Baj'nimen is super fun to beat also.
When the game is perfect that you can't even have a favorite level
I find it way too funny that literally the next comment is someone talking about their favorite level
I think my favourite level is the last main jungle level from Frontiers, because you can start it just by building mecha and survive about 5 waves with it and it's super fun after that.
I’ve beaten Atoll on Veteran, and I had no idea the shrine existed, took me more tries than normal and it felt like I just needed more dps lol
15:25 the sight of only archmage towers....so....beautiful *sniff*
Otil Farmlands has helped me a lot. I think it's a good level ... for farming achievements
Seriously, you can just use a ranged hero and 2 Shadow Archers at the exit and the rest is whatever tower you need the achievement for. I even did a run with Dark Knights only.
Shyguymask: *[uploads a video about Kingdom Rush, going in-depth through different strategies and what makes a good level]*
Me, having never played a Kingdom Rush game in my life: "Ohh, so it's like that huh, I understand everything now." *[doesn't understand anything at all]*
PLAY IT!
I always thought I was the only one who played flash games such as Knightmare Rider and Gemcraft. Everyone else grew up on consoles, I grew up on free flash games on the school computers.
I’m so glad that flash games are getting noticed by people now
I know that you stopped making content, but have any Alliance, Hammerhold or Pirate Kings stages made it to your list, best or worst?
Won't go into deep details but Wizard's Landing and Bleak Valley are some of the new worst levels in the series. Meanwhile I'd say Corruption Valley and Treasure Island are new contenders for the top 5 best levels. Treasure Island in particular would easily be in the top 3 in my eye if it wasn't for the obnoxiously tight, borderline unfair money stealing "gimmick". But in general it's weird how amazing Pirate Kings campaign is, especially compared to Hammerhold.
@@Shyguymask So... Do any stages from Undying Fury make it? Admittedly none of the levels stood out to me.
Also I hate Bleak Valley with every cell of my body.
Not really, but they were all pretty solid.
10:38
You : *kill 6 sheep*
Joe Jenkins : *supersaiyan mode activated*
(He can actually 1v1 a yeti with a pitchfork)
I’m glad you came back to kingdom rush! This was one of my favorite games as a kid. Great video!
8:30 rather than Tesla coils, I actually like to spam Big Berthas everywhere and it's SUPER fun. It's like bomb express up in here
Im kind of surprised that you didn't include any of the vengeance mini campaign bosses as some of the worst levels. They are overall badly designed featuring really slow and boring enemies, having the level get most of its difficulty from just one or two waves, and very lazily made easy bossfights (like the ice queen or the king frog whatever). Other than the great video. I agree with most of your points.
Couldn’t agree more, the two ghosts were the easiest and most boring boss fight in all of kingdom rush, it was one of the worst boss fights in the entire series. The only mini campaign boss fight that was good in krv was the Pond of the Sage, it was actually somewhat challenging. Otherwise, Ironhide had a chance to revive the game with the new campaign they just added to krv but they failed utterly. Almost no new enemies, reusing enemy ideas, and making the levels beyond easy, boss was way over designed and still wasn’t even challenging or cool?
The top 3 has got to be the 3 KRF ocean levels; so creative and very diverse enemies and towers to use
Maybe top 4.Vasil is amazing.
They’re fun but I genuinely think they hired Satan himself to design the blacksurge, Jesus Christ I hate that thing
“I haven’t played in a couple of years, surely I’ll have forgot these levels”
*Instant Nam’ flashbacks to pandemonium*
The dusk chateau boss kinda felt like a veznan clone to me
Well for me, levels with undeads in any of first three games always really fun to play, except for the ones with bosses
Me, who barely beat the game on easy: *stares intensely on the gameplay and tips*
2:08 You forgot Hellboy arm-wrestling another Demon. That's the best reference in this game. XD
Just to say,it's a demon from DC too called etrigan,that some people put to fight against Hellboy
@@Jekyll1886 I knew who he was (have heard of him before), but I just forgot his name. Thank you.
The worst is the Frontiers last campaign level, because the boss destroys your towers, so it converts a Tower Defense into a Real Time Strategy, but without money to re-build. The way to beat is by build only cheap towers (few barracks and all archer towers), so you save money to quick rebuild at the end. Basically you are forced into a cheap war instead a full one.
I did lose the first few times I played it, nevermind in veteran mode, since I didn't think about saving up money and I got unlucky that the boss destroyed my most invested towers
i mean i wouldn't say it's the worst i would say it makes the gameplay more interesting and forces you to play differently then you would ussually without limiting what strategy you can use
@@darkcat6530 I understand that concept when in Starcraft or most strategy games, you have only few units to 'escape' from somewhere, or 'rescue' someone, etc. But those 'special stages' are in the early, or middle campaign, not at the end! The end should test the best you can do with the mechanics of the genre you are playing.
@@vamremMX it does test what you learned while also adding an extra element of strategy namely money saving
@@darkcat6530 well, I think it was just boing.
What an incredible list...in a good way! I'm surprised at some of the choices, but I'll just say, THANK YOU for making #4 worst the Duskwood Outpost. Those trees are dumb as hell, lol.
Yes!!
Dusk Chateau I beat on my first attempt because it actually favors the way I normally set up my defenses. :)
I wasn’t sure about Otil farmlands being terribly easy, then I tried the set up in the video on IMPOSSIBLE difficulty, so 2 dark knight towers, a coal thing and 2 bone flingers, I had 5000 gold left at the end and only had one enemy nearly slip through
Oh I know a thing about enemy spam.
Gemcraft flashbacks.
I used to play a lot of Flash games back in the day. Kingdom Rush was always in my list of favourite games.
@@CorruptX so what version of the game
I actually love otil farmland. While it might bot be one I use for fun it’s perfect for sandbox. You have a miniboss to test single target damage of towers or hero’s, many weak enemies to test crowd control and it’s the best to test towers since any strategy works.
Surprisingly enough, I didn't get much trouble with the Saurian Deathcoils (veteran level without object, I play on Switch). A bunch of crossbows with barrage and/or falconer at the entrance and that's it. Honestly, I did like this level, far from being as terrible as what I thought.
I just can't get the original volcano area music out of my head, every so often I would hear a something similar and then this would be stuck my head for at least a couple minutes.
Oh well. The music's not bad, just very short.
Neat video, brings back memories. A top video using only text, was an interesting read/watch.
4:04 Dude you can’t just die before telling us, what about the aliens? We may never know.
Hollow knight !!!!!!!!!
@@princeali8862 don't
i actually liked darklight depths, thought it was a fun challenge after quite a few attempts. i figured out a pretty balanced setup-no archmage spam needed-with a couple ways to spawn kill the coils back. i see how it could be pretty frustrating though
I'm considering if Otil's Farmland is the worst one out of them all instead. After all, being boring is probably worst than being frustrating, wouldn't you agree?
@@Shyguymask idk, feeling bored is probably better than feeling angry. But that's just my opinion.
Darklight Depths was actually my favorite map growing up as a kid I never relied on my hero's and would just spam mages and archers.
Edit: My favorite part was hearing the death sound effect of the Saurian Broodguard's falling off the cliff 🤣🤣🤣
Oh man, I didn't even think about forgoing barracks entirely for darklight depths. I put so much effort into killing the deathcoils at the start before they could kill my units. If archmage spam works on the highest difficulty, then that would have been much simpler.
Having SGM show the vids of smaller kr you tubers is very nice of him, they’re all great and insane players
6:41
*YEET*
11:40 i swear that level hurt so much... it makes me wanna hire dante to take me out
Storm Atoll is one of my favourite levels :D
After you know the strategy it's not hard to beat, but it's always enjoyable to play!
6:54 Thats the most pitiest excuse of a bastion I've ever seen.
At Darklight Depths, I built mechas close to the enemy entrance points to kill them as soon as possible.
here is a list of some of the most painful kingdom rush levels for me
Icewind Pass
Forsaken Valley
Ancient Necropolis
Buccaneers Den
Crimson Valley
Beresad's Lair
The Sunken Citadel
Bonesburg
The Crystal Lake
The Unseelie Court
Mactan's Retreat
Shrine of Elynie
Duredhel Outskirts
Tainted Pit
City of Lozagan
every single kingdom rush vengeance elite level
interesting... i kinda liked the deathcoil level... i mean sure it was obnoxious but if u dont let them stack up its fine... just shift alric from side to side and have full crossbow bolts on both sides and a necromancer to make targets for deathcoils and stall them...
My favorite and hardest level is Castle Blackburn..... Because we have 3 ways, and 2 with enemy skeleton and zombie spawns very close to exit, we have Abominations, barracks and hero killers Black Hags, and fallen knights with spectral knights ( and you really need to mix you attacks), for me the best level
For its:
1. Storm atoll
2. Blackburns castle
3. Bajnimens castle
4. Denas castle
5. Vasils castle for best.
And:
1. Umbra boss fight
2. Every stage with freaking frogs
3. Levels with Deathcoils
4. Otil Farmland
5. Myconid bossfight with 100 swarm things for worst levels ever.
now that you mention it, origins does indeed not have much music lmao
I love the saurian levels. The transcendence of Fantasy into Science Ficiton is what I found the most compelling because it was done right. From a challenge/difficulty standpoint, the invisibility and brutal butchery of your soldiers from afar abilities posed significantly novel challenges.
I like darklight depths and the other saurion levels. I really like when we are given unique towers like the dwarf barracks. I think the enemies are cool, especially the big boss lizards. The snipers make it more appealing to not clump all your defenses in one part of the map and make use of stall features that aren't barracks, like the mechs oil slick. Once you have adequate defenses up top you can sit pretty with your barracks further down. I think there are fun ways to handle that level without getting frustrated and just resorting to mage towers everywhere. That being said the sniper guys still could have been implemented a bit better, maybe if the dwarf barracks had a special upgrade that gave them a chance to deflect projectiles back at enemies or something. But regardless, while certainly not the best, I dont think the level is awful.
I agree with you
Please make a Tierlist about the Towers and Heroes, or at least more Kingdom Rush i Love your Kingdom Rush Content.
I literally finished 'Otil Farmlands' in *impossible* with 1 Blazing Gem and 1 Elite Harassers 💀
The deathcoil isn't that horrible, yes they kill heroes and units a lot, but i personally think that they are the easiest unit to juggle, when i play that level, i usually just let them attack and when i hear the shooting sound, i just move my heroes away. And i always use captain blackthrone for the most efficent/profit since you may need to move him a lot of time, he may pass a lot of enemies and i think his utility ability can be utilized the most efficent in this level
I noticed with the death coils enemy if you use your hero to bait the shots and then move it then all of the deathcores will be caught in an endless cycle of shooting at your hero and missing, making it so they can't move.
Maybe rank the KingdomRush games? Witch ones you prefer over the others? I think Frontiers is the best personally
Frontiers > Original > Vengeance = Origins
@@Shyguymask Wait so you think vengeance is better than origins or are both the same level of quality to you
@@eyadamr1566 Same level of quality overall. Origins has bad postgame overall
@@Shyguymask Well vengeance postgame isn't any better
The one with the anurians had decent enemies and was quite challenging in comparison to the rest of the game but the boss was pretty lazy
The winter is coming is the same scenery as the second main campaign area but with slow boring enemies that don't even synergies with each other in the slightest and also it has a pitiful boss battle
And the cursed bargain is the worst of them since half the enemies are recycled from the older games and the other half are passable at best and the boss was pretty mediocre
@@eyadamr1566 Origins had one good mini-campaign and two mediocre at best ones. Vengeance had two good mini-campaigns and one eh one.
If we're going to complain about scenery, then that makes the Hulking Rage campaign from Origins worse. Hulking Rage is a lot better overall (wave/enemy design) but you get my point.
Recycling enemies isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's interesting to fight returning enemies with completely new towers if not mechanics. Even though most enemies in the Shadowmoon & Blackburn campaigns are the same, they don't feel repetitive or "the same" because towers and heroes are very different. Same thing with the Cursed Bargain mini-campaign, except there's not as many recycled enemies in comparison. Not to mention Cursed Bargain has some of the more interesting enemies in the series, having a big emphasis on taking armor/resistances seriously and making the player rely less on splash damage. And honestly, the boss is more interesting than half of the bosses in the series.
My least favorite level is definitely Ancient Necropolis from KR1. It’s because fallen knights have such an annoying design- an enemy that has high armor turns into an enemy with full magic resistance and killaura when it dies. Also, the entire level is just managing two separate paths.
As for my favorite, it is Denas’ Castle from KRV due to how many cool elements it has. Vez’nan, the archers shooting at your troops from the wall, the mortar, the stage transition, etc. However, I didn’t find the boss to be very fun.
I think it's the opposite, fallen knights bring a very interesting challenge to the table. It makes you think thrice about where you position your physical and magic towers around the map. If you struggle with them, check out Ignus.
@@Shyguymask
Alr I tried the level like a week ago and I was like "immune? Well artillery ignores half armor so who cares" 5 minutes later i realize "wait,you can't ignore half of immune armor" then I finally built mages, apparently the only thing that was killing them was the reflect damage from the barracks and reinforcement
Yeah I'm dumb
Edit: holy sh- the amount of spelling errors I had to correct was insane
I liked darklight depths for the single reason that since i was relying on bruxa to kill the razorwings, it was the only level that made me have to constantly move my hero which was a noticable change
Otil Farmlands is easy I agree, yet it is a great level to mess around, work on tactics and test out weapons. I still feel guilty for killing Joe Jenkins, his scream is saddening. 😂
Darklight depths is pretty tough but I was relatively able to do it with like strong hitting towers in the center and crossbow forts and mechas for the snipers
The best level for me is the level in KR1 where you have to beat the big troll named Ulguk Hai ! it was such a fun level
if mods implemented in this game then it would be dope and more replayability
Im kind of glad that there is some mindlessly easy kingdom rush levels. They let me test/level up hero's relatively mindlessly
In the darlington depths u don't want to use any soldiers at all. Its the worst strategy for this level
That's the point. A good level should make all towers viable. On darlight depths 3/8 towers are almost useless.
4:53 nightmare map in heroic mode, duskwood outpost heroic is easily the hardest level in origins cuz of high micromanagement demand (along with dwaraman gates iron)
8:02 why are mage towers even there? I NLL'd the level, heroless, with full tesla (veteran ofc)
11:43
"Every tower is viable"
*Templar's cry in corner*
To be fair, with their max HP upgraded they can survive the explosion attack from Abominations, and Assassins can't dodge stuff like Death Aura anyway.
@@Shyguymask Yeah they get a little more use in postgame. Deirdre is kind of a must to maximize their potential. They're just too expensive to be viable especially since assassin's can handle most situations better. Also templars don't really gel as well with Frontier's design
I’m surprised the Halloween levels from vengeance weren’t anywhere on here. Either hate the ghosts immune to physical, or love the lamps that one shot them. Personally I hate those levels.
Shyguymask:pandaemonium is the very hard.Me who beat it first try:Very interesting
These games are so underrated im glad you are making more videos on them.
My favorite map is Emperspike Depths. Umbra is amazing boss. It's so cool how it explodes and reassembles. Exploding towers with a single glance also makes him very powerful.
Yeah umbra is the best
but the volcano level from frontiers just hits different
just spam archmages for darklight depths as shown in the video. They can kill anything, and xyzzy won't even make it past the top portion of the map. Your hero and the dwarves will constantly die, but who needs them
it's nice to see KR youtubers get promoted by someone popular like SGM
Video suggestion: Tower tier list
Meep. I didn't play enough Kingdom Rush to make it to _any_ title's postgame, but I'm guessing Deathcoils are so brutal you can't even limit them to _exactly one wave_ so they'd be a miniboss instead of the Kingdom Rush equivalent of a Terry Trap.
Tbh otil is pretty good for leveling up heroes
I just KNEW rotwick would be on this list! I recently played that level and couldn't help but feel bored with the spam.
would love to here your top 5 best/worst enemies in the kingdom rush series
I’m surprised by your number 1 worst pick! I actually love that level and find it fun to work around the enemies. Here's a good example of being able to have fun with the danger they pose to your units: th-cam.com/video/DVhpBDj_ifc/w-d-xo.html
Well besides the Necromancer Tower whose skeletons haven't done a lot at all, there wasn't even a single Barracks tower build. Another DWAARP or Battle Mecha instead of that Necromancer tower would have been arguably better.
@@Shyguymask Skeletons are good safety nets just in case they need to block enemies, but if they don't, it's not like the whole tower was a waste. The Necromancer's ranged attack is really helpful against the flying enemies that come out. If I had a barracks tower instead, not only would the early enemies overrun them, but late-game they'd have barely any usefulness. The level might not be fun for you because you don’t get to build the strategies you like to build which is totally valid. I personally enjoy working around not being able to use barracks.
@@Voduke789 Don't need to block enemies if you can just clean them off. As far as I could see pretty much only small enemies at low or md HP made it to the skeletons. A second Battle Mecha would have been able to simply clean them off while still being able to target flying enemies with Wasp missiles, not to mention provide stalling with Oil Disposal.
@@Shyguymask A Battle Mecha is a less simple solution than a Necromancer, even more so if you invest that much money into all of its upgrades.
@@Voduke789 I don't see how. The money is more than worth it and it will perform a lot better than Necromancer, and you can switch to another hero that provides damage and crowd control to an extent since you won't be using necros or barracks in that case.
Aww, bummer. The saurian levels are my favorite part of frontiers. You battle these menacing looking dragonkin who fight using futuristic tech, unique abilities like warping and going invisible and whose introduction comic makes them look like they're about to drop the sickest metal album on you. Honestly, battling them is so much fun without feeling like a nuisance, like those annoying tribal people and their annoying poison darts, cannibals, barrier shamans and necromancers
I actually like the enemies themselves (Deathcoils aside), but the level themselves were just lacking. The scenery was really boring, the difficulty was lacking because Mecha is blatantly broken and only kept in check by enemies like Bloodshells and ghosts/phantom, and the level design and gimmicks weren't as interesting as with the Desert and Jungle levels.
The saurian snipers would be a lot nicer if they had a reload time where they walked down the path, most of the time, as shown in the video, they just end up grouping at the begging of the path and are completely uninteractive.
I think that twin river pass shouldve been on the list. There isnt much diversification of enemies and only like two alternating land plots
I know you do a lost of KR videos, but I'd really like to see a challenge in origins or vengance where you only use level 1 towers