This has been my current LoveFilm game for the past few weeks, since I sent Rage back. I'd had half an eye on it for a while but it was a friend from work who finally gave me the nudge to actually get it and I have to say, it is SO hard!
This is not a AAA top flight game, but it is in the mainstream and has received reviews on XBLA and is quite highly regarded. You get the sense that the game designers have concentrated on making sure the player gets told nothing except for a bit of story to keep them sort of going the right way. There are no hints or tips, no tutorial, you're just thrown in at the deep end and have to figure it out for yourself.
My friend at work warned me about these points so I went in with my eyes open, but I can imagine a lot of people who bought this game must have thought it was broken or bugged, because within 5 minutes of the beginning of the game you're confronted by an epic monster!
I've probably only played this for about 5 hours now, and a lot of that time is highly frustrating as I've died over and over trying to achieve the smallest thing, but after a while I get into the flow, settle my nerves and all of a sudden it comes together and you realise how wonderfully the game has been put together. I love the fact that it is so hard, I love how you don't really know exactly where to go, I love how you have to figure out how to kill that boss monster by yourself through trial and error, it's so refreshing to not have your hand held through a game.
This game gives me the feeling of Advanced Heroquest, an old dungeon crawling boardgame from the late 80s. Everyone thought it was going to be a slightly suped up Heroquest, but the reality was that it was a ruthlessly brutal dungeon crawler where the Adventurer's lives were so fragile and could be ended with one brutal stab of a ratman's sword.
So if you like a challenging, gritty RPG and have very good coordination and twitch reflexes, this is the game for you.
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