Crestfallen Studios

Classic East meets Classic West on the DS, this is the best dungeon crawler I've played in a long time, based on the ancient D&D formula of a single town with everything within and one dungeon which is far bigger then most games entire world this title provides a meal for the starved population of hardcore RPG players.

Given life by the combined effort of Atlus (Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean) Some Guy (Lead of FF 3 to 6) and a bunch of Red Box masochists this title is the wet dream of all members of the Old Guard that claim that modern RPGs are far too easy and long for the forgotten days of mapping mazes on graph paper(Atlus was nice and let you use the touch screen for mapping) and fearing random encounters.

In short, if you liked the old Final Fantasy games, get this, if you liked Wizardry/Eye of the Beholder/Expedition to the Undermountain, get this, if you are a masochistic bastard that loves banging his head against a wall after dieing with no save point for 2 hours, definitely get this.

Sarcasm wrote:if you are a masochistic bastard that loves banging his head against a wall after dieing with no save point for 2 hours, definitely get this.

Speaking from experience?

From what I can see it looks pretty good. I may actually buy a DS and play it.

a pirate's life for me . . .

Indeed . . . there is only one save point in the game, and its in town.

The only downside to this game is that like classical Western RPGs, it actually expect you to grind a bit, and die, a lot.

EO is awesome, and the upcoming sequel looks even better. It's not for everyone, but the level of customisation is great. You just need to use your imagination a bit if you want your characters to have any personality.

O RLY? I didn't like it that much. Drawing maps gets boring quick. I barely finished it.

Wait, you've actually finished it while disliking mapping 'quickly'? how the hell did you manage to do that?

It auto maps the paths you take. I just didn't draw the walls.

Events? FOES? item points? Warps? Pits?
you're lucky you weren't playing Wizardry . . .

BTW http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/11606

Sarcasm wrote:BTW http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/11606

I may actually be dumber for having watched that ...

Or maybe your brain just kicked out all of the useless information you thought you needed and replaced it with something more meaningful like that video.

FOE is perhaps the most nerdy acronym ever conceived.

MusashiEX wrote:FOE is perhaps the most nerdy acronym ever conceived.

Even more so than ROTFLOL?

Sling wrote:

MusashiEX wrote:FOE is perhaps the most nerdy acronym ever conceived.

Even more so than ROTFLOL?

Undoubtedly so.