When comparing Jet Run: City Defender vs Merchant, the Slant community recommends Merchant for most people. In the question“What are the best one handed Android games?” Merchant is ranked 5th while Jet Run: City Defender is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose Merchant is:
The game has a nice retro pixel art style. From the menus to the dungeons or shop there is a very familiar aesthetic to the overall design that would have fit in quite well on consoles in the 80's.
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Pros
Pro Flashy arcade styled flight sim graphics
For what can often be a a tired genre on mobile platforms, Jet Run: City Defender offers a fantastic arcade graphic style on top of the endless runner gameplay.
Pro Controls are responsive, simple and intuitive to use
The touch screen control scheme for Jet Run: City Defender is tap and swipe based. While being intuitive enough for the novice gamer to figure out there is still enough challenge to mastering the technique. Taping is used to shoot missiles at aliens while the swiping is used to avoid objects and make turns. Being that the controls are responsive means the game is a joy to control.
Pro Gameplay is a fun mix of 80's style space invaders and the endless runner genre
The gameplay of Jet Run: City Defender has the player tapping on the screen to shoot rockets at space invader styled aliens while also swiping on the screen to avoid obstacles and collect coins.
Pro Pixel art
The game has a nice retro pixel art style. From the menus to the dungeons or shop there is a very familiar aesthetic to the overall design that would have fit in quite well on consoles in the 80's.
Pro Fun resource management mechanic
The player can sell their loot (gathered from a dungeon) for in game money, to then be spent on needed equipment or can equip their loot to try harder dungeons to get better loot to sell for new equipment. Each action is a gamble and may or may not pay off for the player.
Pro In active development
Merchant is still in a very active development phase, which means there will be plenty of bug fixes and new features and tweaks to the gameplay added.
Pro Dedicated subreddit
Merchant has a dedicated subreddit page where users can discuss the game, strategies and bugs.
Pro Completely free and zero permissions
Merchant is a completely free game that also has zero permissions.
Cons
Con Only one environment to play in
There is only one level that the player traverses which can get dull after an extended amount of playing.
Con Current version has both ads and in-app purchases
Con Wait times
There are wait times in the game for both crafting and adventuring. This makes it impossible to sit and play for any length of time and makes the user have to come back to the game often in order to make any significant progress.
Con Lag/delay of action
When pressing buttons in the menus there is a noticeable delay until the requested action actually takes place.