Legend of Grimrock The Tower of Bones

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Published on August 20, 2019 4:53:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBwOU3ro1c

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Legend of Grimrock (2012)

Duration: 46:47

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I've actually done this one three times, but decided against the third after a death, which would have resulted in a longer playtime, so I just edited my 2nd one. The reason for that is, you get punished for certain builds in this mod. Went mace/throwing, I found one mace, and 5 throwing weapons combined.

So went axe/sword/archery/mage. Went more towards fire, since it's the most cost effective. The puzzles and such are pretty easy to solve, they either tell you what to do after finding a note, or they don't have any other function outside of a specific command.

Combat is a bit similar, though it has some interesting gimmicks, otherwise, I'd say it has one kind of bad fight. Lichs are basically broken in Legend of Grimrock. They can do 4 elemental type attacks, 3 are projectile based, one is bs based. It will instantly hit you from way past what it actually looks like it is doing, can hit multiple times and does massive damage. You can dodge the other 3 by going left or right, but if you go in for an attack and they hit you, well, that's like half your hp for most characters. This is a tight hallway with 2 of them, where you aren't even remotely at your best.

Then to bring up this, since I could see this fight later, but not at the point it occurs. You can do optional dungeons, and oh, are they REALLY optional. So you go into a maze one, it's quite boring, you get the best light armor in the game, ya leave.

The next is 3 areas with an ok amount of enemies, first is archers with faster shooting animations, then the poison throwing plants, then one shot skeletons. After this, you get 3 books, one for hp, one for fire+3 and fire resist 10%, and 5 skill pt book.

You'll complete these, after fighting some spiders, the fighting about 20 enemies or so from the other event, then you fight like 2 enemies and the map ends ._.

Like, the ending is designed to give you different endings based on your treasure rewards, just put a treasure at the end of these optionals. Otherwise, they're pointless, you don't get to use the rewards for any real gain, there isn't a difficult end at all, it's just a breeze then the map ends. Both are completely redundant to do.

Basically, starting setup sucks if ya pick the wrong class, one part is obnoxious due to level layout and just general broken design of a monster, then the optional areas are pointless, which has the more interesting concepts in them.

Ok, but disappointing.

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