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Abstract: It is all thanks to handheld gaming that I got myself into first-person dungeon crawling. I had heard of titles like Wizardry , Might and Magic , and Eye of the Beholder , but I never took up the chance to jump into their worlds. These type of games you m...
Published: 2017-05-02, Author: Matthew , review by: gaming-age.com
Abstract: I honestly can't figure out why Stranger of Sword City Revisited exists.I'm not saying that it's a bad game. I'm not trying to insult the hard work that the folks at Experience Inc. did in making it. I'm not even suggesting that it's inconceivable anyone...
Published: 2016-05-13, Author: Matthew , review by: gaming-age.com
Abstract: There's a simple test to determine whether you're going to like Stranger of Sword City: do you like dungeon crawling? I mean, do you really, really, really like dungeon crawling? If you do, then odds are very good that you're going to love this too.After...
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Published: 2016-04-27, Author: Jada , review by: nerdreactor.com
Stranger of Sword City sets out to do exactly what it has hoped for. It is a successful culmination of character creation and dungeon crawling and conquering, all with a solid narrative that keeps the player interested from start to finish. It makes a few...
While it succeeds in making a challenge for the player, Stranger of Sword City feels aesthetically bland, and lacks the intelligent dungeon design that fans of the genre have come to expect...
Published: 2016-04-15, Author: Charlie , review by: gotgame.com
Stranger of Sword City does have some flaws, including a poorer than you would expect translation (some places are simply a literal transfer of Japanese into English, making some sentences obtuse, complex, or even clunky), especially from a title publishe...
Beautiful artwork, Interesting twists on old mechanics
Story wastes a wonderful setup, Permadeath system is poorly implemented, Spikes in difficulty make for tiresome combat, Too reliant on grinding, Lack of proper animations cheapen the experience
Abstract: In theory, Experience Inc is a company I can easily see myself appreciating in the long term; I've been openly effusive toward the dungeon crawler genre in the past, and by and large they make dungeon crawlers almost exclusively, so you'd think that would...
