The first Fieldrunners game was a highlight of the PSP’s library, while this one has already shown how good it can be on both mobile devices and PC. Obviously, the fact Fieldrunners 2 is so good shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. It’s designed to be playable by gamers of all skill levels, rather than ramping up the difficulty early on it gives lesser players the chance to play on casual difficulty, while people who want more of a challenge can try the harder difficulty levels.

On top of that, there’s the fact that Fieldrunners 2 doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to gameplay. Fieldrunners 2 looks crisp and clear on the Vita’s screen in a way that Pixeljunk didn’t, with characters and vehicles and weapons that look bright and shiny. And what sets Fieldrunners 2 apart from Pixeljunk Monsters HD, you ask? I’ll admit, a lot of it just comes down to aesthetic preferences. In other words, we’re able whittle the list of the Vita’s worthwhile tower defense down to 2 just by setting up a very low bar. There’s no fumbling around on a hard-to-read map with weapons that don’t look very different from each other here, you just see everything laid out in a clear fashion, and go from there. In Fieldrunners 2, it’s easy to figure out what each tower does, easy to place them exactly where you want them to go, and easy to upgrade them whenever you want.

You wouldn’t think simple competence would be a selling point for a game, but, then again, you probably haven’t played some of those aforementioned competitors. To a large extent, this is because the game just works exactly like it’s supposed to. Still, it’s easy to imagine that even if there were a few more challengers, Fieldrunners 2 would still fend them all off. Admittedly, this isn’t a huge accomplishment when your competition is stuff like Day D Tower Rush and Fort Defense, it’s not a very crowded field. Or, as I like to call it, the best tower defense game on the Vita. If you’re just counting the ones worth playing, there’s a Pixeljunk Monsters port that’s not too bad, and basically nothing else.Įnter Fieldrunners 2. But that’s not really the case you can probably count the number of them on one hand. Considering that a) tower defense is a pretty popular mobile genre and b) the Vita’s touchscreen makes it well-suited to that particular kind of game, you would think it would logically follow that c) there’d be plenty of tower defense games on the Vita.