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Rob Beschizza

AT 2:17 AM
Monday August 24, 2009

Art • DS • Get This

dark spire

The Dark Spire: a ten-dollar dungeon crawl you might have missed

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The Dark Spire was released on Nintendo DS some time ago, receiving lukewarm reviews despite its amazing artwork. HC explains why you should play it.

The Dark Spire is very heavily influenced by the original Wizardry games- it's an unapologetically oldschool dungeon-crawl through the titular Dark Spire. ... what I have found is a solid dungeon crawler which seems to be lacking many of the warts that typically mar the genre. As an Atlus game, I expect it will disappear from store shevles without a trace in another few months, but at the time of this writing, EBGames.com carries it for a paltry ten bucks- at that price, I'd say it deserves your consideration.

That this title's old-school mechanics and bizarre, palette-limited design didn't light fires is a terrible shame.

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3 Comments

A New Challenger

#1 – 12:50 PM August 24, 2009

It also comes with a soundtrack CD.

I passed on it because I'm really not the old-school dungeon-crawling sort. The art is pretty cool though. And you can switch to a more retro graphic mode on the fly.

Maybe next time I drop in at Gamestop I'll grab it on a whim and add it to the massive RPG backlog pile. It would have a better than average chance of getting played though, being on DS.

iamnotanumber

#2 – 1:40 PM August 24, 2009

The Dark Spire doesn't get enough love. I can't agree more with sentiments linked to above. If you like AD&D this captures the feel nicely, without the huge commitment in time that picking up the paper version would entail, never mind trying to get a group together to play . . .

Evil Jim

#3 – 2:08 AM September 2, 2009

I like how even the official web page has Modern & Classic modes. I'll have to scoot up to GameStop tomorrow & see if it's still available.

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