Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart mated with modern execution. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exile to the secluded Mount Grimrock for vile crimes they may or may not have committed. Unbeknownst to the captives, the mountain is...
Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart mated with modern execution. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exile to the secluded Mount Grimrock for vile crimes they may or may not have committed. Unbeknownst to the captives, the mountain is riddled with ancient tunnels, dungeons and tombs built by crumbled civilizations of days long past. If they ever wish to see daylight again and reclaim their freedom, the ragtag group of prisoners must form a team and descend through the mountain, level by level.
The game brings back an oldschool challenge with highly tactical real-time combat and grid-based movement, devious hidden switches and secrets as well as deadly traps and horrible monsters. Legend of Grimrock puts an emphasis on puzzles and exploration, and the wits and perception of the player are more important tools than even the sharpest of swords would be. And if you are a hardened dungeon crawling veteran and you crave an extra challenge, you can arm yourself with a stack of grid paper and turn on the Oldschool Mode, which disables the luxury of the automap! Are you ready for some classic dungeon-crawling first person perspective party-based RPG action? Are you ready to venture forth and unravel the mysteries of Mount Grimrock?
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve!
Explore a vast network of ancient tunnels, discover secrets, and find a way to survive in the perilous dungeons of Mount Grimrock.
Cast spells with runes, craft potions with herbs, and fight murderous monsters with a wide variety of weapons.
Create a party of four characters and customize them with different races, classes, skills, and traits.
Pure-blooded dungeon crawling game with grid-based movement and thousands of squares, riddled with hidden switches, pressure plates, sliding walls, floating crystals, forgotten altars, trapdoors, and more.
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Grimrock is well done. Check any review posted to see that. It is certainly the kind of title that belongs on GOG.com. It captures the core of the fp dungeon crawler. The addition of modern lighting techniques and superbly handled sound effects make the experience engrossing.
However, Grimrock is not an amazing top in class game. It is solid, and above average, but it has severe limits surpassed by most any long standing series in the genre. In the end, the mechanics are simple. The monsters (and fights), simple (although the 'boss' at the end was a fun fight) and the puzzles, for the most part, simple. Grimrock has almost zero replayability (even Torin's mode is so redundant that I dropped out early.)
I cringe at the idea of the map editor, as, the engine demonstrates such limits in gameplace that I don't see a point. The creators built a great dungeon. But, frankly, one more floor would have been one too many.
I enjoy dungeon crawlers a lot, they are my favorite genre, but, outside of a few high points and the boss, Grimrock, in spite of inspired maps, lacks depth in its repetitivity.
I am very fond of this game, maybe thats because I have a soft spot for dungeon crawlers. You move on a grid with a party of 4 heros and descent in the dungeon. The background story is somewhat boring and not very present (prisoners dropped in dungeon, have to find a way out and defeat a demon on the way). The gameplay itself is fun. The grid-movement together with character creation and skill trees is satisfying. For the combat: I had no problems and I didn't consider it boring. The trick is to skill correctly.
The puzzles are ok, not too difficult, but also not boring. The most fun is to find hidden corridors (usually opened by a loose rock in the wall, which is quite visible if you know what to look for).
I had so much fun with this game, that I have to give it 5 stars.
The Dungeon Master clone - wherein you explore a grid-based dungeon from a first person perspective, with real-time combat but RPG progression - is a relatively small genre, but Legend of Grimrock is without doubt the best game within it (with the exception only of its own sequel).
It's easy to determine if you're the audience for this game - if you enjoyed Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder, this is for you. If you've not experienced them, they're probably cheaper entry points to the genre. Go try one, and come back.
Great dungeon-crawler. If you like grid-based games then this is definitely for you. It is debatable wether a Turn-based system would have worked better for the combat. But there are games like Lords of Xulima or the new Bard's Tale that will cover this. So the combat experience can lead to some frustration when it is all about clicking fast and strifing or circling. Nevertheless a great game, very nice riddles and puzzles. Great work by the developers and the sequel is a good game aswell although from the setup I do prefer the first game.
Having been a huge fan of Dungeon Master on the Amiga (and it's sequel Chaos Strikes Back) and then the Eye of the Beholder series (the sound of the EotB spiders still makes me feel a bit ill) I was excited by the news of LoG and ordered it pretty quickly. I would like to mention some positives, some negatives and some neutral "I wish..." just like my gaming friends and I used to always say about games as kids. Just so you know...now...I love the game.
Positives:
Old school gameplay with classicRPG elements - level up, skill points, hero key stats, classes. hunger (for some reason this really adds something). Unless you find and hang around the couple of endless spawn points you will need to pick your preferred skills and focus your prisoner team - you won't be able to max them out with standard play. Why is it so much fun and exciting to earn 4 more skill points and deciding where to allocate them?
The graphics, whilst pretty samey, do a good job and,when combined with the atmospheric sound effects really create a pretty immersive experience.
The level design is pretty damn good, including those deliberate little side-step dead ends you naturally step into (for some reason) when trying to run away from an awkward enemy.
Save anytime you like and as many save files as you like.....yes! Thanks LoG developers. I am big enough to know that saving after each minor victory is sort-of-cheating-kind-of but gaming is a treat these days and I am very pleased I do not have to replay the same bit over and over and over thanks to the dreaded checkpoint save system found in many games.
Hooray for symbol based, get your spell ready, spell casting.
Auto map with ability to add your own notes and, for real old school players, the ability to switch it off. I for one left it on - at the end of the day if you are drawing the map out you are just wasting time. If you don't want to play with a map don't hit the button.
I know some people don't like the square/pit dance combat but I found most battles were pretty intense and would induce certain levels of panic.
Oh....the team automatically picking up throwing/missle weapons is really nice too.
Negatives:
Not many here really. Some of the puzzles were a real ball ache. In particular the timing puzzles. Easy enough to work out what to do but they took ages to get the timing just right. I actually found that by turning the resolution down I could move quicker (I was playing at a rather high res and movement was sluggish) which helped alleviate the problem. Having read the review by the disabled gamer I feel for him with regards to this as I too wished I could skip these bits as they weren't actually a puzzle just frustrating. Not sure how possible they are with mouse-only controls. LoG developers - give us a secret pressure pad or something that slows the things down.
The last level, or what I imagine is the last level as I haven't managed to complete it, is REALLY tough. To the point where I seem to be dieing and reloading more than actually playing. I have really enjoyed playing the game but my motivation to keep trying and trying and trying and trying and trying has really dropped off at this late stage. If it is near the end then my character development has pretty much peaked and the challenge is getting really annoying, Maybe I am just rubbish though :)
When closing doors the monster animations appear through the door and look a bit rubbish and seemed to really be a grating weak spot in an otherwise emersive experience,
Some wishes:
Ok, some of these thoughts stem from DM of old but I wanted to mention them.
I was disappointed to find out that you can't close doors on top of monsters to do extra damage - that was always rather pleasing. If the monster attack animation is playing and the door closes, hit them hard on the head rather than the graphical glitch mentioned above.
In DM I loved the ability to increase the power of spells (resulting in bigger, more damaging, fireballs). It really felt like the character was learning his craft. I know the skill points sort of achieve this but I remember the sheer joy when a character eventually managed to pull off the next level of a spell. I also felt smug about the trick of clicking a symbol, sleeping, then clicking the next, then sleeping...etc. as in DM the mana would decrease as the spell symbols were chosen.
It would be nice to have a use for the old stuff (clothes/weapons) that your characters shed throughout the game. I felt like I wanted to sell them to get gold or XP or something rather than just drop them. I know there is no use for gold in the prison I just wanted something good to come out of them. This has nothing to do with DM but a lot of other dungeon crawlers.
Overall a VERY enjoyable and emersive game. Am so pleased to have played it and I recommend it 100%. I just hope I can get it together and finish the thing. I hope that a sequel will come out very soon.
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