Mastered the hold! ...Basically just see our GatEB review for our full take, but for stuff specific to this hold:
This is a playable growing pain. We mean this in the kindest of ways possible, of course--it's still fun, and we enjoy how this game was the start of the truly incredible worldbuilding DROD would come to be known for! But man, while KDD is janky and rudimentary in a fun way, this is janky and rudimentary in... well, fun for us, but we can see it being abrasive towards others.
Retrospectives haven't been kind to this one, and we're inclined to agree to some extent. But we think it has to be respected on some level for the foundation it set. Also, it's very funny how you can just kinda kill 39th in every single room when that's not meant to be possible.
This is a playable growing pain. We mean this in the kindest of ways possible, of course--it's still fun, and we enjoy how this game was the start of the truly incredible worldbuilding DROD would come to be known for! But man, while KDD is janky and rudimentary in a fun way, this is janky and rudimentary in... well, fun for us, but we can see it being abrasive towards others.
Retrospectives haven't been kind to this one, and we're inclined to agree to some extent. But we think it has to be respected on some level for the foundation it set. Also, it's very funny how you can just kinda kill 39th in every single room when that's not meant to be possible.
DROD is a relatively unknown series with a small, dedicated following. I played the first DROD game on a windows 98 shareware disc back in 2000, and if not for that, I don't think I would have ever heard of it.
It is a turn-based dungeon-crawling puzzle game, and on each turn the player can either move one tile, or rotate their sword around them by one tile (out of the 8 surrounding tiles). It seems simple at first, but the game constantly introduces new mechanics and enemies to keep things interesting.
The overall aesthetic style of the game may not be for everyone, but it's unique and has a lot of character.
I'd suggest starting with the fourth game: DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder, since it's a bit more modern and accessible (I'm reviewing this one because it's the only game in the series I've actually finished thus far)
It is a turn-based dungeon-crawling puzzle game, and on each turn the player can either move one tile, or rotate their sword around them by one tile (out of the 8 surrounding tiles). It seems simple at first, but the game constantly introduces new mechanics and enemies to keep things interesting.
The overall aesthetic style of the game may not be for everyone, but it's unique and has a lot of character.
I'd suggest starting with the fourth game: DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder, since it's a bit more modern and accessible (I'm reviewing this one because it's the only game in the series I've actually finished thus far)
25 levels full of puzzles, start very easy and slowly gets harder and harder until the level ~16 when it gets stagnant until the last four levels, not all rooms and every level is harder than previous one.
An excellent mind-broken game which follows the history from the end of the first one (King Dugan's Dungeon).
As the other reviewer, I also suggest to play Gunthro which is easier than this one or KDD.
An excellent mind-broken game which follows the history from the end of the first one (King Dugan's Dungeon).
As the other reviewer, I also suggest to play Gunthro which is easier than this one or KDD.