Overview
-Estimated achievement difficulty: 6/10
-Estimated time for 200: 4-8 hours (depending on skill)
-Minimum playthroughs: 1 Campaign + Many Survival Rounds
-Offline: 12/12 (200)
-Online: 0/12 (0)
-Missable Achievements: 0 (level select)
-Unobtainable Achievements: 0
-Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty
-Cheats disable achievements: No cheats
-Glitchy achievements: 1 (Eclectic God...see description)
-Extra equipment needed: Windows Phone 7 ONLY
Introduction
Babel Rising is a tower defense strategy game in which you play as God with the goal of preventing tiny humans from building a tower to the heavens using the elemental powers of earth, wind, fire and water. There are two game modes. Campaign mode consists of 15 missions with specific objectives to complete, while Survival mode pits you against unlimited tower-building humans to last as long as you can. This particular version of the game is more challenging to play/complete due to the presence of lag. It is still doable however with a little patience. Currently the game is listed at $2.99 in the Windows Phone Store.
Step 0: Grind coins to max out all of your skills
The first thing you should do is take some time to grind enough coins to max out all of your powers and passive powers. This step is optional, but recommended to make the game much easier and faster to complete as a whole. The best method to grind coins is to abuse the consecutive daily bonuses for playing the game by manually adjusting the date on your phone. The basic steps to follow are:
- Load up the game. A daily bonus screen will pop up if it is the first time you do so on the current date. You will be awarded a prize based on how many consecutive days you have played the game.
- Exit the game. This is done by hitting the back button on your phone from the Main Menu and confirming you want to exit.
- Go into Settings>Date+Time on your phone and advance the date ONE day forward. You must first have the "Set automatically" option turned off.
- Repeat the previous three steps over and over. To make this go quickest, always exit out of the date settings with the "Home" button on your phone. When you exit of Babel, hold the back button on your phone to return to the date settings via the multitasking screen.
There is a five-day cycle for daily bonuses. The first four days you are generally awarded random prizes. It will either be a scroll of some type, or a smaller amount of coins (less than 200). Day 5 is always a coin lottery, where you can win up to 1000 coins (usually you will get 400 to 800). Depending on how fast you navigate the various screens, this method can easily earn you 15,000 to 30,000 coins per hour. Keep track of the dates you have advanced to because the game will remember the ones you already earned bonuses on. If you cant remember, just advance far ahead to a random future date that you wouldn't have used before. Finally, remember to set your clock back to automatic before proceeding with the game, and especially before unlocking any achievements.
Step 1: Complete the campaign, grinding in Survival when needed
The Campaign experience revolves around completing 15 missions which get progressively more challenging and frustrating. The key to success is upgrading your active and passive powers, as well as equipping the most applicable scrolls for each mission. All of these things cost coins. If you want to have the easiest time completing the campaign and with most of the achievements, you should grind coins to always be ahead of the game in Campaign with your powers. See Step 0 for more information on grinding coins.
Step 2: Mop-up
After completing the Campaign, you may have a few achievements left. Most of them are easier with more advanced powers and scrolls and when played on specific levels, but most will unlock naturally along the path to completing the Campaign. The only cumulative achievement in the game requires you to kill 10,000 enemies, which may or may not be reached before completing the Campaign
Conclusion
Babel Rising 3D is a unique tower-defense game on the Windows Phone platform. It is not too challenging, but the controls at times can be frustrating. Veteran players should have no trouble, but those new to the genre may need to do a bit of grinding to get better powers and upgrades before attempting the more challenging levels of the Campaign.
[x360a would like to thank Arsenic 17 for this Roadmap]