Navigating The Labyrinth

I had fun with the game. The character system is reasonably solid and the itemization is decent. The core combat loop is entertaining and there is good monster variety. The maps are often pretty barren and there are no treasure chests to find on the maps themselves so exploring thoroughly is not always rewarded. There are a few bugs and graphical anomalies but nothing that ruined my enjoyment. I did play it to the end which is certainly something in this day and age.

** COULDN'T POST ON TOWARD THE ICE DEMO ** I am now weary of this developer, I was looking forward to Toward the Ice until first two reviews pointed out problems. SO I download demo and the demo just stayed on loading screen. Gave up after Three Tries...... Really Disappointed I will look else where for these types of games *************************************************** General Like the Game A Lot Very relaxing dungeon crawler. A few things needed to improve it. A. Battle Text Box. I have to put the Battle Message speed down a lot otherwise the time between characters actions is so long. Because I put the speed the down, when the battle ends the Box disappears so fast I cant see final rewards. So if i want to see it I have play with slow battle settings which i don't like. The box should not be off this setting, it should either stay and let us close it or just fade out but fade in if you mouse over it. B. Keyboard Config There are problems with this. For example 'M" closes mini map instead of bring up big map. I have to click on mini map to bring up the the bigger map. There is nothing under control configuration to assign mini map or world map, they just don't exist. F = Flee can't change it. A = Attack can't change it. ? = NEED A QUICK SAVE OPTION ? = NEED A QUICK CAST OPTION FOR SPELLS (PARTYICULARLY HEALING) C. MINI MAP & MAP Please add more to maps outside of towns. The map feels empty.. not trees show up or rocks. You can not zoom in or out on big map.... D. HEALING AFTER BATTLE & FOOD The biggest thing I don't like about game after battle I have to open character then hit cast select heal click on portrait or name of character to heal. Then the screen closes instead of stay there for me to continue to heal. This gets annoying really fast. So many steps to heal your party. Maybe have a heal party button were it cast healing spells evenly amongst healers and party or at least keep screen open. I PERSONAL DISLIKE THE FOOD GIMMICK!!! EACH PIECE OF FOOD TAKES UP 1 INVENTORY SLOT! SO 6 APPLES TAKES UP 6 SLOTS IN INVENTORY! E. BIG GREY INFO BOX? Why have a big grey info box pop up... i.e. i heal a character. Why not put it in battle text box that i said to keep open? F. TWO SEPARATE AREAS TO HEAL AND RECOVER MANA The game has two areas one to recover health and one to recover mana. I dont like it but is the way game set up. G. WHY ARE CLASSES LIKE WARRIOR GAINGING MANA ON LEVEL UP? MY WARRIOR HAS 2 MANA???? HUH??

Third in the series and I feel it's the best one so far. This game has better graphics, better itemiztion, good class balance. If I had to pick on anything, I would say the game is too short taking me about half the time to finish compared to the first two games. Quests seemed to stop about halfway through the game and really the second half just focued on killing and navigating the different mazes to get to the end goal. The second half of the game felt like it was rushed to finish by not having elements that made the first half of the game more engaging (i.e. quests, dig spots, fountains, unique encounters, etc.) Some new elements (i.e. traps and spinners) made exploration more interesting but annoying. It would be nice to have the thief type classes have a chance to bypass these traps. The spinner was just plain annoting since you can always see the direction you are facing in the minimap (so really no chance to get lost). The spinner would be much more effective if the arrow on the minimap also changed to like a question mark or something. Also one quest where the choice has minor consequences towards the end. It would be nice to see these elements refined and expanded upon in later games. Also no intelligence casters like the first two games - just 3 Wisdom based casters. And no hybrids like the first two games. It was nice to experiment with some different class designs though! This game also introduces the taunt feature but I found even in encounters with a large number of mobs, it was still more effective to DPS things down and use AOE spells to "thin out the herd". As always, the developer is an active participant in the forums, accepts feedback, and continues to add bug fixes / features backporting as appropriate to the earlier games in the series. This to me is a very big plus!