Fever_Discordia: The Eye of the Beholder (with All Seeing Eye) Wow for me the All Seeing Eye mod MAKES this game - with it it's a fun exploration game where every step feels like a tiny bit of progress as your explore the map.
Without it it's just a dick of a game that leaves you lost and confused with puzzles that exploit the identical nature of the wall tiles to teleport the party all over the map without the player even realising! What kind of a game mechanic is THAT?
Also what's with making the player pick up every single projectile arrow, stone and knife after every battle and giving them back to the appropriate party member nicely? THAT'S a good use of the player's time! Good job that the game is relatively combat light I guess...
Also the level and puzzle design seems a little.. naïve, like something a teenager would think up to play on his kitchen table, although I guess there's SOME charm to that - it's an authentic D&D experience at least!
there's also random information missing like how much damage the weapons actually do (ooh a rock +2 but what's the base damage? Who knows?) and it tells you how much EXP each party member has but not the amount they need to get to the next level!?!
Also a wall of text ending sequence is always a bit of a cop out!
You may say I'm being overly nit-picking and not appreciating how old this thing is but it WAS released AFTER the 'gold box' SSI AD&D series and in many ways it feels like a step backwards!
So, in short, maybe worth your time IF used with All Seeing Eye and you happen to have some nostalgia about getting so far with it on the Amiga in the 90s..
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https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_finished_in_2021/post131 Thanks for the review. I've also just completed the game with the All Seeing Eye and my view closely mirrors yours. I found the combat to be underwhelming for the same reasons you did. Having to pick up every missile weapon and the slowness of combat magic resulted in me mainly relying on my front two melee fighters.
I finished it in 20 hours, but if I'd played it purely 'old-school' without the mapping provided by the All Seeing Eye, that could quite easily have been 30-40 hours. The game definitely has a certain charm and looks great but I'm not sure I would have had the patience to stick with it for that long.