It's a good notion, but the execution doesn't impress me. Level 4 is just brutal, and the music feels more tacked-on than anything else. This could just as easily have been done with a sliding scale and without music.
*plans extensively, then begins survival mode* Oh, it's not that bad. My blasters have them in check still. *comes back ten minutes later* hey, they killed one of my blasters! Wait, are they speeding up? *a full hour later* MY SCREEN IS SO BLUE
Oh Viktor the XIII. It would always be you for me. The concept is cool, but I could use a little more epilogue, personally. What about his wife? Do all the Viktors keep trying, or do they finally settle down?
I would really love to know what the effects of defense and protection are a little more exactly. They're a little hard to quantify now, which makes picking armors harder.