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((short description|2009 video game))
((Infobox video game
|title = Starship Patrol
|image = 
|caption =
|developer = [[Q Games]]
|publisher = [[Nintendo]]
|designer = 
|platforms = [[Nintendo DSi]]
|released = ((vgrelease|EU|2009|NA|2010|JP|2010))
|genre = [[Strategy video game|Strategy]]<br/> [[Tower defense|Tower defence]]
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
))
'''''Starship Patrol''''' (also called '''''Starship Defense''''' in North America and '''''Star Ship Defender''''' in Japan) is a strategy video game of the tower defence type developed by the Japanese company [[Q Games]] and released by [[Nintendo]] for the [[DSiWare]]/[[Nintendo DSi]] platform.<ref name="van Duyn1">((cite web |last1=van Duyn |first1=Marcel |title=Starship Patrol Review (DSiWare) |url=https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/2009/12/starship_patrol_dsiware |website=Nintendo Life |access-date=8 January 2021 |date=21 December 2009))</ref><ref name="Mott1">((cite book |last1=Mott |first1=Tony |title=1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die |date=2010 |publisher=Cassell Illustrated/Hatchette UK |isbn=9781844037155 |pages=917–918 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=olpPoAswgHoC |access-date=8 January 2021 |quote=(Nb. link is to e-book version which had different publisher and publication date to original)))</ref>

==Gameplay==
Similar to other games of the tower-defence genre, the player must defend a fleet of starships against alien attackers by strategically placing turrets and other defensive mechanisms. The player may make use of certain power-ups and bonuses, but is also rewarded for not using them. The game has 30 stages (or levels) of increasing difficulties, each featuring different structures to be defended. As with other games developed by Q Games for the DSi platform, the game has minimal styling, with the graphics being styled to appear like mathematical graph-paper.<ref name="van Duyn1" /> 

The games differs from others in the tower defence genre in that the avenue of attack of the enemies varies significantly during the game, though the player is warned about the direction each attack will come from by dotted lines appearing on-screen. The player is allowed to adjust the aiming-zones of their weaponry during attacks to adapt to them.<ref name="Mott1" />

==Reception==
Reviewing the game for ''[[Nintendo Life]]'', Marcel van Duyn game the game a positive score of 8/10. Van Duyn praised especially the art-style and called it "a game you should definitely consider picking up if you have the slightest bit of interest in the tower defence genre", though they criticised the music saying that it was "a bit low-key and won't really impress".<ref name="van Duyn1" /> Simon Parkin reviewing the game for the ''[[Eurogamer]]'' website also reviewed the game positively, describing it as "contemporary and stylish despite its obvious thriftiness" though also "a fairly orthodox Tower Defence game".<ref name="Parkin1">((cite web |last1=Parkin |first1=Simon |title=Starship Patrol Tower of Babel defence. |website=[[Eurogamer]] |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/starship-patrol-review |access-date=8 January 2021 |date=14 January 2010))</ref> ''[[Edge (magazine)|Edge]]'' magazine also reviewed the game positively, stating that it was "as good as you'll find on DSiWare at the moment".<ref>((cite news |title=Starship Patrol Review |work=Edge |date=February 2010 |page=95))</ref> Reviewing the North American version of the game for ''[[IGN]]'', Daemon Hatfield described it as "the best tower defense game on DSiWare".<ref name="Hatfield1">((cite web |last1=Hatfield |first1=Daemon |title=Starship Defense Review |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/02/25/starship-defense-review |website=IGN |access-date=8 January 2021 |date=25 Feb 2010))</ref>

The game was subsequently included in the 2010 book ''[[1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die]]'' which described the graphics as "achingly lo-fi" and the game as a whole as a "rare work of craft".<ref name="Mott1" />

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[[Category:Q-Games games]]
[[Category:Single-player video games]]
[[Category:Strategy video games]]
[[Category:Video games developed in Japan]]

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