I played Books I and II and generally enjoyed them. I'm halfway through Book III (11 hours). It sucks rocks. Why? First, it's too hard to do anything. I'm playing as a mage and have to rest for 24 hours game time after battling EACH enemy, just to reload mana. (Contrast that with an ARPG, where you kill monsters by the dozens and still have plenty of HP and MP.) So the routine is: walk a few feet. Kill one monster (hope there aren't two!). Retreat and rest a long time. Repeat. There's too little gold, so I'm deprived of resources. The only damage spell I've gotten so far is Spark, which is really lame. It takes 12 hits to kill anything, and then I'm out of mana. Having to remember food and water is tolerable but in the end, even more drudgery. This is nothing but a grind. Second, there's no plot and nothing to care about. Sure, the setup is a that bad little space alien is trying to take stuff from the other little aliens and hurting everyone else in the process. But we never meet any of them and care less. Calling characters two-dimensional is to insult length and width. I'm giving Book III two stars for basic game play: music, graphics, combat mechanics. Otherwise forget it.
