Grimrock

Since I knew this was the final boss, I spent all my herbs on bear form, speed and rage potions and stood in front of him and spammed attacks and healing. Even though that sounds like a crude strategy, it was still a really tense and exciting encounter, since I had to be constantly aware of what was going on around me to keep up all the actions at the right times. Great final boss!

Overall, this is a really strong campaign that feels like a continuation of the main game -- it has just the right balance between combat, exploration and puzzle-solving, and the quality in all three areas is very high. The player is given a great amount of freedom in terms of where to go and what order to tackle problems in, but not so much freedom that it spoils the sense of gradually unlocking harder and harder levels. The gold key shop and quest hub ensure that the whole campaign feels cohesive and there's a great sense of being constantly rewarded for progress.

Among the levels, Sunken City stands out because it dares to do something different. Sure, the base game has Flooded Dungeon, and that also works well -- it's a lovely surprise that the underwater mechanics are used for a little exploration and some puzzles early on, and then you suddenly have an entire underwater level as one of the last levels. But it's very small, whereas Sunken City shows that the mechanic can be used for a full-sized level. My other favourite level was the Mausoleum, and in particular the Torment Halll gauntlet; a very fun and challenging exploration of what the game is capable of throwing at you.

The pyramid is an excellent final dungeon; getting trapped inside with only the resources you currently have with you is a great way to build up tension, and by the time the player is able to get out again, they have a real sense of how much there is still to go and how hard it's going to be.

The gem store is a very neat idea: if the player has fallen behind and had to use up resources, it allows them to recover, while the player who can get by without needing to spend gems is rewarded by being able to spend them on improving their party (either through experience or crystal flowers). My only gripe is that the campaign requires so many lockpicks compared to how many are available in the wild; I never had green gems to spare until reaching the pyramid.

A couple of the puzzles could have used small tweaks -- "purblindness" is such a strange word to use when you could just have said "nearsightedness" -- but there was only really one part of the campaign I didn't enjoy, and that was Dark Tower Floor 3. Normally, I like it when a game requires me to get out the pen and paper and draw my own maps; there is something very satisfying about putting together something physical. It draws me in and makes me an active participant in the puzzle-building-and-solving process, and it gives me something to enjoy looking over afterwards (maybe years later) to remember the fun we shared. But here, all that was diluted by so much frustration, because it was so hard to spot exactly what changes each button had made and get it all mapped out. This could have been made a lot nicer if the buttons had been arranged so that the tiles they affected were always in view.

Despite a few small gripes, this is an absolutely great mod and I really enjoyed playing it

As for "purblindness", this was the only word that google translate proposed, no variants to choose from. While "nearsightedness" sounds much closer to the meaning of the word in my owl language. Will fix it in the new version (not sure when I will release it though )