Legend of Grimrock

First of all, LoG and its sequel are really great games that I have had lots of fun playing through (I didn't play any of the old games that inspired this series, so my experience is exclusively from LoG and LoG II). --- I recently played both titles again and this time I made a party of historical characters that I was involved in at that time. This really made the playthrough enjoyable as it brings up a lot of funny situations and ethical/philosophical questions about the choices you make in the game. My party consisted of 1900's philosophers and a chaotic helicopter. Since you never see your characters you can easily get involved in this roleplay style. This was my party: Jean-Paul Sartre - Human Barbarian, Ludwig Wittgenstein - Human Battle Mage, Attack Helicopter - Insectoid Rogue, Albert Camus - Human Alchemist. Here, Wittgenstein can be seen returning to his earlier philosophy after the "rejecting the need for clarity of language to convey meaning"-concept doesn't help getting past the Cemetery Gate puzzle: https://i.imgur.com/NVPPAMx.jpg

Just wanted to let any older or slower finger floppers on here know that this has arcade style puzzles that I found make it impossible to get past for those of us that have less than super typing skills. I found it a decent game until attempting one over 50 times (after reading walkthrough) and just quit. So only got to experience the first 4 levels. That makes it NOT FUN!

For myself its a worthy tribute to classic games like Eye of The Beholder series from Westwood/SSI. 5/5 without doubt.

I've only played several hours of Grimrock however I can say that it firmly reinvigorates old school D&D rpg style game-play.

After over 3h of playing I can say that game's addictive. Gameplay is really as good as it was in the old days in EOTB or DM. Definately worth buying! farewell, coming back to dungeons ;)