The game is easy to play, quick movement and the menus are almost intuitive. It is an old game with repetitive gameplay, lots of backtracking and unfortunately not that much story for a game called "Tale". I'm glad I tried it but not sure I will finish it, still haven't seen all of the first dungeon and finding that was rather hard. I would recommend this to people yearning for the old retro touch, this have that in heaps, but it's showing it's age. I got it on sale and consider it a find for $3 that I paid.
It probably isn't a 5/5 game by today's standard but I love it and still recall the first time I met the skeletal horde in the catacaombs. Ii is a good game with story elements and functional logic for the most part. If you transfer a team from EoB1 then it will most likely be overpowered for this game, I actually prefer pleying it with a fresh party. Again, maybe that's because that is how I first played all those year's ago.
This was a pleasant surprise when I first played it. I really longed for a relatively modern take on Dungeon Master, which this resembles a lot more than Eye of the Beholder, and this gave me my fix. There is a story which is told in game with text in visions and notes in game. It's not mind blowing but absolutely good enough. The puzzles are adequate in difficulty most of the time. What I feel is lacking is the characters and any explanation about how the game system works. Is evasion better or worse than armour? What weapons will there be in the game, what skills matter? For me this was a exploratory first playthough, then a more optimized run trying to find more stuff and after that trying weird builds that sort of break the game (unarmed). Still with the flaws, this is a 5/5 for the genre. At first I liked this one better than the sequel but both are worth playing.
