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Friday 24 January, 2014
These were my final words on Defense Grid on July 31, 2011:
"I finally decided to stop playing after seeing the last level, which is a, yes, giant scary multi-story grid with two entry/exit points. I just don't even want to try, it's so intimidating. I know it will be fun to mess around with, but I also know it will take for damn ever, and I will die a million times...I might come back to it in the future if I ever feel like punishing myself."
Well GUESS WHAT. I beat it. 2-and-a-half years later, I beat it. I opened up MS Excel. I made a giant grid of that final, previously impossible level, and then recreated it. I mapped out the land and the bridges. I put Os for tower spots, blacked out floor-less cells. Then I studied it looking for the best ways to route enemies and I color-coded the tower cells where I needed to build. Then I assigned tower types to each cell.
I alt+tabbed over and over in the beginning of the level to be sure I was building according to my map. It took a bunch of tries. I even got an achievement for restarting a level from a checkpoint 5 times or more. One time I made it to wave 28/30, died, went to restart from checkpoint, accidentally clicked the wrong button and lost all my progress. The next time I made it that far, I won. I won by ONE CORE. How close can you get?!
I took screenshots. I cheered. My girlfriend looked at me like I was crazy. I looked through all the DLC I have and realized there are still like 30 levels. I cheered some more. I beat the main game. It was epic.
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