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Games: The friendly folks over at Atlus were kind enough to share some preview information about their upcoming game The Dark Spire, and so I'm passing it on to you…
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If you like your RPGs old-school, and I mean old-old-school, this game should definitely be on your radar.
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Don't let these incredibly stylish graphics fool you, the heart of The Dark Spire is the sort of dungeon-crawling, character-rolling, chest de-trapping experience that hasn't been seen on consoles since (probably) Wizardry on SNES. Remember that game? Like it? Stop reading and go preorder now.
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There's tons of flavor scripting, each little snippet like a trip down memory lane for people who are old enough to remember text adventures, and if these graphics are too flashy for your taste, there's also an 8-bit graphics mode that represents dungeons as wireframes along with simplified monsters.
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Although I haven't played the adventure through, I think the other nod to old-school role-playing is the difficulty level. My sources tell me that ‘brutal’ is the name of the game, with Spire sporting a degree of lethality possibly steeper than the superb Etrian Odyssey games. Are you Tuff-E-Nuff?
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For more information check out the official site HERE, and circle the April 14th release date on your calendars.
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