Legend of Grimrock

I'm not a big dungeons and dragon guy. but I enjoy this game for it's tactics. and mood. Also, i usually support GOG.com but i got it on steam cause it was 4 bucks.

When my friend first bought this for my birthday I couldnt get into the game a lot but having recently tried the game again I am not disappointed. It feels like a 3D Zork game with good puzzles, combat and role playing elements. The dungeons look sexy and the music is catchy.

I have played many dungeon crawlers. Even on console. I am not a huge fan of dungeon crawlers, because the one thing I hate in games is that there's a maze in every game at one point. Especially back in the nes and genesis days. If you enjoy dungeon crawler type games then it really doesn't get better than this. There will be time when you will jump because you get scared, when you get nervous because there's weird noises, and you freak out because you're out of food. The magic casting system is very original, The character development is standard allot points. The game is a huge maze, but you never really get lost. You can always find your way around. The real challenge here is the puzzles. You will get stuck, but you will feel when you figure it out without cheating. There's not much story, or music for that matter, but you're exiled to a dungeon and left for dead, so it works pretty well. You need to hear what's going on around you anyway so lack of music is a plus. For those of you who are hardcore dungeon crawler fans, to hardcore mode and break out the pencil and gridpaper! This game is better than Shining in the Darkness on Genesis which is saynig a lot. The only dungeon crawler that has this game beat is Shining the Holy Ark on Sega Saturn.

I have kicked myself for years because I skipped over all the old dungeon crawl games like Wizardry and DnD. However, now that I have finally started playing those games, I couldn't make the mistake again and not pick this one up. If you like Dungeon crawls, and the video/screenshots interest you at least somewhat, do yourself a favor and pick this up. It has good visuals and some good puzzles. It won't disappoint.

There are two ways to look at and review "Legend of Grimrock" -- you can view from the eyes of a contemporary gamer who expects certain things from modern RPGs, and can you can view it from the eyes of a veteran gamer who grew up with "Ultima," the Gold Box Games, and "Eye of the Beholder." Undoubtedly, this game was aimed at the latter, and given that, it is a great success -- not perfect, but great. It shares many of the elements of "Beholder" in particular, and while not as fun or detailed, it succeeds at creating atmosphere and bringing you back to the glory days of old when you had to make maps on grid paper. As a love letter to the fans, it deserves 5 stars -- or at least 4 -- just for trying. For contemporary gamers who expect modern RPGs to have cut scenes, jaw dropping graphics, and a long campaign with lots of interactions, tons of monsters, weapons, skills, classes, etc... LOG just doesn't wow and feels decidedly barebones. From this standpoint, it seems to be unfinished -- a part of something that could have been bigger, grander, more epic. Yes, it is supposed to just be a dungeon crawl but there could have been more content -- a lot more. To go back to "Beholder" again, such games were fun because there were so many options, so much content, so many things you could do to customize the game to make each go-round different from the last. Again, LOG doesn't wow -- it's just okay. From a modern gamer's standpoint, I'd give it 3 stars. But of course, LOG is for a specific audience -- and keeping all things in mind, I can safely and accurately give it a 4. It hasn't wowed me in any way, but it 'did' feel like the visit of an old friend. Then again, it make me miss "Beholder" all the more -- and I hope GOG will eventually offer that series as well. Nice job with LOG, in any case. It's cool to know that developers know what the genre has missed all these years. Just pure, simple, fun gameplay.