🎖️ IN MARFUSHA: SENTINEL GIRLS YOU GET TAXED FOR EXISTING 🛡️ REVIEWED ON: (GeForce GT 1030/i7-3770 ) 😭🔫 This is the story of Marfusha, a cute absolute Waifu material-esque girl who gets recruited by the military to serve in the corps and fight for freedom. Little did she know, her own country will be emptying her wallet everytime she managed to be victorious and erradicate the enemy. That's right, everything in this game is bureaucrazy! In this game you will have to pay to survive. Pay for your gear and weapons, pay to defend your base and patch it up, and even pay to get friendly arms during war. Nobody's gonna make it easy for you, and extreme bullying and wallet-stripping is what you deserve soldier! Not a coin less, not a coin more for you! Do you have what it takes to get in Marfusha's shoes and balance the little you make with each daily struggle, in the process of getting stronger and holding your fort? If you do make it to the end and get the good ending, then you're worthy of her attention, and feel free to take her hand in marriage! 💥 MARFUSHA DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS, NOR DID HER SUPERIORS CARE: This is a 2D Side-Scrolling Defense Shooter, that can easily be beaten with a little skill. But requires being even more skilled to complete it as intended. The game records your ability and progress, defining the ending later on. There are multiple endings in this game, but all of them are tied to the companions you hire over each playthrough, and 40 days of actions and performance. It all depends on how good you are defending your base and fending off foes. The game starts off pretty chill, and ends up getting quite challenging, which will put you in tight spots if you want to be clean to the end. While it can get repetitive, the fun is there and probably the addictiveness for many as well considering there's also a challenge mode. It will take you a while to get the hand of it all, but it won't take you much to reach the end of the story, which is quite short. I'm really not a sucker for this genre, but bought both games in the series on sale because of the Waifus and Girls Frontline vibes at first glance. Did not expect it to be that fun! 💥HIRE WAIFUS WITH THE LITTLE YOU HAVE PENDING ON YOUR SALARY: In this game you'll be able to hire Waifu companions to aid you in protecting your fort/base, and max them up, each with their personalities, casual interactions in your shelter/safe house moments, guns/abilities, and specific endings to the story. Of course, each playthrough will only let you max one soldier and experience one ending. Asides Belka my fave (who I knew was a Tsundere from the start), you will be able to meet and hire Enos, Alibina, Strelka, Bion, Laika, Félicette, who each have their own ending stories to them. They all make the game worth beating more than once. Choose wisely, and or choose them all in time! Whatever your decision, I hope you find the girls to breath more life into the game casually as I did. 💥 MARFUSHA HAD TO LEARN TO PLAY POKER THE HARD WAY: This Roguelike game features a unique card-selector system with each wave and day you'll have to experience. Cards will vary, and as you get taxed for all your efforts, sweat, and blood, you will have to face critical choices and decide what best fits your current situation, sacrificing your plans: 💸 The game is even more realistic when it comes to weapon durability, making it harder for you to progress without arms. As days go by, your weapon will break, and you will have to buy a new one. Which means, if some cards are really what you need for a assured victory, then you will have to forget that sooner or later because purchasing a new gun is what's up. There are various firearms to choose from, each with their own durability cap, so keep an eye on this. 💸 The enemy is breaking through, and your fort is crumbling? No worries, stop what you're thinking, don't use that money to grow your companions stronger, buy turrets, traps, and or stats for yourself! Forget about it all, and waste all your money in lifting your defences and repairing that damn wall before all hope is lost! Would you rather get a new weapon to endure this war, or fix the home of your patriots and see a new day once again? Tough choice kid, Marfusha would know what to do. 💸 You need to grow stronger, soldier! You will be able to select cards to max your base attack, speed, reload, and other stuff, that will help you destroy enemy forces faster. This of course adapts to your choices with time. Remember! Getting stronger, means getting taxed out of your free will and paying to defeat your foes. This is the War, nothing is free here. They forced you to enlist without even asking you, and for that you must pay! 💸 Little bonuses here and there, but you can also pay for some ally help from the skies, nukes, healing tools to repair the place you are protecting, and also deploy defences and ground traps like spikes to make your enemies slower. Do you have enough money for all of this? Crying is not an option, man up already and survive! NOTE: Despite failing multiple times or at least once, you can restart the specific day by pressing RETRY, your fort will be intact with all it's base HP, and you will get random card drops everytime. hey, at least you don't have to pay to keep fighting, that's what you're here for soldier! 🤕 Trully a unique game and take on the whole shooting and defending genres. I learned a lot about Marfusha's homeland and how the system works over there. If it was me, I'd be protecting her eternally side by side until either of us are down. Can you change her fate and that of her companions, ascend the ranks and get sent to some place even more dangerous, save your country from doom and starvation while you starve as a savior, and make enough money to retire? 10/10 no panzers needed, since just one would be far too expensive for this war.