Posted on: December 20, 2012

jfoe1980

Gry: 93 Opinie: 1

The best in the genre

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.

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Posted on: June 19, 2013

nyarlathotep88

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Gry: 548 Opinie: 13

A fun and challenging game.

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.

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Posted on: May 5, 2012

THEBATMANRN

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Gry: 2182 Opinie: 4

A love letter to the fans of "Beholder" and "Dungeonmaster"..

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.

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Posted on: November 29, 2012

MrTickTock

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Gry: 125 Opinie: 5

Tactical, interesting, room for growth

This game is a fascinating dungeon-crawler with some problematic flaws. The most interesting aspect of this game is the movement system. It's tile-based (and it takes one "move" to turn) and your enemies are just as subject to that as you are, so you will find that combat encounters require circle-strafing and maneuvering, and that backing around a corner can allow you a moment to strike at an opponent's flanks before they turn to face you. This is fantastic. However, certain fights can start to feel like strafe-fests, and while that's not necessarily terrible, It'd be nice to see environments more cleverly constructed to incentivize movement options that are not "circle-strafe" or "back away." That brings me to the environments. They are beautiful. The art direction on this game was clearly solid, although the pure dungeon-crawling aspect of the game doesn't necessarily allow the most ridiculous of environmental designs. You will see a lot of brick walls and torches, and that's ok. You won't get too terribly tired of seeing them. Then there are the puzzles. Most puzzles are not very difficult. That isn't always a bad thing - certainly a game with a food mechanic can benefit from giving you challenges that don't require hours of head-bashing to solve. However, I'd like them to be more creative and more challenging than they are. One puzzle is solved by winning a staring contest with a gargoyle head, as one reviewer mentioned, and another - a torch-position-swap - is practically given away by a "riddle" scrawled on the wall. This isn't necessarily terrible, but it stretches the suspension of disbelief a little and the riddles (yes, there are others) tend to be pretty easily decipherable. There's nothing functional about the game that should preclude making really interesting puzzles, and it's disappointing that there are very few of them. That's not to say, however, that you won't fist-pump in the air a little when you overcome some of the puzzles or find a new way to use the environment against your foes; it's just that as solutions tend to be fairly basic, it won't necessarily take you very long to figure out the answer and it won't feel like a major intellectual accomplishment, just a routine but pleasant defeat of an environmental foe. The magic problem has been mentioned - you may find yourself using a lot of antidotes when you didn't expect to, and since the scrolls don't seem to be randomly distributed...well, some Mage builds are arguably just better than others. The first spell you get will be fire-based. I'd appreciate seeing more dungeons from the developers in which some of these issues are addressed; I think the puzzle problem is the biggest one, but making the effectiveness of a mage depend so heavily on whether his build matches the predetermined scrolls you find is also a serious flaw. Nevertheless, the art is nice, the movement and combat are interesting and the general feel of the game is solid. I have enjoyed what I've played and I'd like to see more from this developer.

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Posted on: April 13, 2012

SpeakingBeast

Gry: 202 Opinie: 4

Evolution of the Dungeon Crawl

I've been having a blast with this game. Great flow and execution. Recommended to anyone with good taste! ;)

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