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The Dark Spire (DS)

Description: Manufacturer: Atlus / Genre: Role Playing / Release Date: 2009

Newest Review: ... as they ascend the Spire. The graphics within The Dark Spire are nothing to write home about. That's the idea, you see, as ... more

... Atlus, the game's developers wanted to hark back to the early RPGs. Your intrepid band of adventurers creep around the Dark Spire in the first person and any enemies or tasks faced are seen in the top screen, with commands and dialogue in the bottom screen. What graphics there are within the game are smartly presented and each creature you encounter is drawn well, but there is no animation to speak of. A neat little bonus aspect to the game is the wireframe graphics mode. At any time during the game the user can switch...more

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The Dark Spire (DS): Old School RPG Thrills (1345 words)
by - written on 01/07/09 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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For those of us out there that are old enough (ahem) to remember the golden age of 8-bit gaming, 'Dark Spire' opens a portal back through history to the eighties and the popular Role Playing Games (RPGs) of the day. For those in the know, what we have here is a modern day 'Wizardry'. *** Nostalgia *** I can remember getting a Commodore Vic20 for Christmas and being particularly intrigued by a game called 'Dark Dungeons'. The game started off with a character generation; a randomly generated set of qualities, with a numerical value assigned to each one. Words like 'dexterity' and 'stamina' were quite alien to this seven year old; my father was ... Read the complete review

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