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Methus Tower Defense Game Guide
Introduction
"Methus' Tower Defence" is a fantasy tower defence game featuring:
- immediate gameplay & mouse-only controls with keyboard shortcuts
- 10 different magic skills: 5 evocation spells + 5 necromantic rituals
- RPG elements with upgrades of each spell from level 1st to level 10th
- Besieging Hordes of enemies coming from 3 different armies
- 20 game-levels with increasing number of attackers' waves
- Automatic savegame at the end of each game level
- All 3D graphic characters, animations and background
- Dynamic particle system for magic spells, arrows and blood
- CGI 3D animations for introduction and epilogue videos
Story
Methus is an ambitious talented sorcerer of the black magic art who decided to become a loyal follower of the unmentionable Dark Lord supporting his war versus human communities.
Unfortunately for Methus, as in the most classic fantasy stories, ...the good ones won the war versus the Dark Lord's armies.
So, the Orcs and Goblins who escaped from the slaughter want to avenge their dead buddies by killing Methus who convinced them to fight aside the Dark Lord.
Also the survived chaos knight and dark mages want their payback and they ask it to the Dark Lord's follower who is still alive.
On top of that, the winner army of the Humans Alliance wants to eradicate all the evil arms of the Dark Lord.
As a consequence our dear Methus is now besieged within his tower by enemy hordes demanding his head cut off!
He is a novice sorcerer, but as a talented necromancer he knows the power of the dead souls and he still has the Dark Lord spirit aside to teach him how to learn and upgrade the spells and rituals of the black art!
Goal
Survive all 20 game levels, keeping your tower energy barrier up and beating the enemy waves off thanks to the magic spells at your disposal.
Drain and collect the souls of the killed enemies, in order give them to the Dark Lord' spirit for gaining new spells and for upgrading their power. The collected souls are useful also to restore your tower energy barrier and to recharge your mana pool.
So, during the game, focus on killing the enemies but don't forget to drain their souls as soon as they die.
Main Menu
New Game: to start a new game (deleting any previous saved game you may have). You've to choose the difficulty level (easy, medium or hard) before starting: the harder is the game you play the higher score you have the opportunity to achieve at the end for a better Highscore ranking.
Continue: to resume the game you were playing before opening the Main Menu. MehusTD in fact automatically saves the game at the end of each game level. In case you die (Game Over) or you close the game/browser, just press 'Continue' on the Main Menu to continue from the beginning of the level you were on.
Options: to set the graphic quality and the volume of music and sound fx (off or 1 to 5).
Controls: to open the Help Page resuming all controls of the game.
Game Guide: to read this complete game guide.
Creatures: to benefit of the complete army list specifying your enemies' features and skills.
Highscore: to look at the Hall of Fame highscore page.
More Games: an easy link to the free-internet-games portal www.crazymonkeygames.com
In-game Tutorial
"Methus' Tower Defence" has a complete in-game tutorial on the 1st game level.
Just press "New Game" on the main menu and follow the instructions.
Controls
The in-game tutorial explains all the controls of the game.
Pressing "H" during the game is always possible to open the "Help page" here below, clarifying the controls resume.
The game is almost all playable with mouse only.
Main Controls
Click with left mouse button (LMB) on the icon of one of the available spells on the bottom right interface, in order to select the spell to use. Then click the LMB on your target enemy (or the the target area, for the spells with area effect) to cast the selected spell.
By keeping the LMB pressed you continue to automatically cast the selected spell (after its casting time).
Important: A consistent help to your gameplay speed and efficiency is the strategic use of keyboard shortcuts: simply pass over a spell icon with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard number (123...0) to attribute as a shortcut. Once selected, the keyboard shortcut appear over the spell icon: it means you may switch the spells just pressing the related keyboard number. Do it and you'll be very faster in selecting and casting the different spells in game.
Once you kill an enemy, don't forget to drain and collect his soul before it vanishes (after 6 seconds). See below the "Souls use & Spells upgrade" session.
Whenever you blue mana bar is low or empty just press "SPACEBAR" to recharge your mana pool at the rate of 100 mana points for each sacrificed soul.
If the red bar of the tower magic barrier goes down to zero: Game Over.
Other controls
"ESC" to Main Menu. By clicking on "Continue" button you resume the game you were playing.
"M" to mute audio (music and sound fx). To fine-tune the music and sound fx volume balance enter into the Options from the Main Menu.
"G" to open/close the Creatures Guide (pausing the game): this guide is useful to fully understand the features and skills of the enemies you are going to face, divided by army (Orcs&Goblins, Dark Force Army, Humans Alliance).
Magic spells
As a sorcerer of the Black Art, Methus has the access to both Evocation and Necromantic spells. Each spell has a different learning cost (souls), casting cost (mana), might and effect. You'll probably focus in game on few spells you'll consider more appropriate to your strategy, but consider that each one has special benefit and appropriate use.
Evocation spells
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Magic MissileCast one or more energy bolts that hit and damage one target |
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Acid Arrow cast one magic acid arrow that hit and damage one target
then eating and damaging its body for some seconds. |
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Fireball cast one magic flaming sphere that hit the target point
damaging all enemies in the exploding area
then burning and damaging their bodies for some seconds. |
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Lightning Bolt cast one magic lightning bolt that hit all enemies in line
damaging them and stunning them for some seconds
then burning and damaging their bodies for some seconds. |
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Summon Golem evoke a huge magic creature that defends your tower
hitting with heavy punches all enemies around it. |
Necromantic spells
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Slow Bolt cast a spiritual field that slow by 50%
movement and attack speed of all enemies in the area |
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Aura of Terror evoke a spectral apparition that scare away all enemies in the area. |
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Toxic Cloud cast one greenish toxic cloud floating on the battle field.
Enemies are damaged each second of exposure to its evil stinks |
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Raise Dead compel the souls of fresh dead enemies to spiritually raise their corpse
and fight as an undead army versus your attacking enemies. |
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Wave of Death the ultimate necromantic spell summons a horde of evil specters
that run over all the attackers on the battlefield
draining all the life force of your weak enemies. |
Tower magic barrier fast recovery
Each game-level generates more and more besieging waves of enemies. Between each wave you have the opportunity to get a fast recovery of the tower magic barrier. In max 15 seconds you shall decide whether to sacrifice a consistent number of souls in order to repair the tower barrier. You'll have 1 to 4 options of recovery (depending on the game-level you are playing):
10 souls for +10% barrier
25 souls for +20% barrier
50 souls for +35% barrier
100 souls for +50% barrier
These options are a lot more expensive than the normal barrier recovery option, possible at the end of the level (explained below in the "Souls use & Spells upgrade" session), but it's a important opportunity during the most difficult advanced game-levels where each single enemy wave is so dangerous to beat hardly your tower barrier.
Souls use & Spells upgrade
At the end of each completed game-level, you have the opportunity to use the collected souls for spiritually recover the damaged tower energy barrier and to increase Methus’ magic skills.
The number of available collected souls is written in the center of the image, on the
The number of available collected souls is written in the center of the image, on the necromantic cauldron.
Below it, an icon of your tower indicates the % of the residual energy barrier that still protect your stronghold. By clicking its 
button you recharge the barrier at the rate of +5% per each sacrificed soul.
In this session you may also learn new spells and increase their level so to make Methus more powerful and more dangerous. Each spell label indicates the condition to learn it or (if you just got the spell) the resume of its features (effect and casting mana-cost) at the actual spell level.
Passing over the spell label, the level up consequences are described in the bottom-centered area (level up souls-cost, effect and casting mana-cost).
Would you like to undo some choices before facing the next game-level, just click the button 
where you want to decrease again the value. By clicking 
you reset all selections. Just click on 
when you are ready to pass to the next game level.
Some Suggestions
- Use keyboard shortcuts (see Main Controls session above). They increase a lot your efficiency and speed in selecting and casting the right spell at the right moment, switching them fast.
- Kill the ranged attackers (archers and mages) as soon as possible ‘cause they start shooting your tower from far, while the close combat enemies need more time to reach their target by feet.
- Collect all the souls of your dead enemies. Remember they vanish after few seconds from the death. The collected souls are the most important resource of your game, in order to learn and grow your spells, to repair your tower energy barrier and to restore your mana pool.
- Focusing on few spells at high level is often more efficient than having many low level spells.
- During the first game-levels you probably find more efficient to use only aggressive spells that directly damage your enemies, like Fireball, Acid Arrow, Lightning Bolt. Be aware that the final game-levels creates fast and numerous waves of enemies. To survive those besieging huge hordes, you’ll most probably need also special spells like: Toxic Cloud to create long-lasting deadly areas on the battlefield, Slow Bolt to slow the most dangerous enemies, Aura of Terror to scare away groups of enemies when they are too many near your tower. An intelligent use of Skeletons and Golem is also a key-strategy to create obstacles for the coming enemies: this way you engage them in useless battles against your magic slaves while you unleash you most dangerous magic attacks against their mortal bodies!
