![]() This is a serious, strategic RPG, but it's also amazingly charming in its design. Reviving dead members is a pain (and really expensive), you start out alarmingly weak with as little as four HP at level one, spells are required to even see your current position on a dungeon map, and nearly every treasure chest is rigged with deadly traps. The actual stats themselves often work behind the scenes though, so when you buy new weaponry or armor you'll have to use trial and error to figure out what works best for each member of your team. It's all first person, there's very little animation at all in the game, and the entire design hinges around creating your own four-person team, selecting their race and alignment (neutral, chaotic, or good), and rolling for stats. ![]() The Dark Spire is a purely traditional RPG, which needs a quick explanation. Even after crawling many a dungeon with The Dark Spire, I'm still reluctant to say it's truly better or worse than its other main contender on DS, Etrian Odyssey, but it certainly holds its own, and this one is going to come down to your own personal tastes in dungeon crawlers. Low and behold though, this one had sleeper hit written all over it, and a hands-on quickly followed. I had a chance to go hands-on with The Dark Spire a while back because, quite frankly, there isn't always time to cover every uber-niche game out there, and we were making cuts.
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