Grimrock

Just finished my first playthrough and I have to give LoG three thumbs-up. People are rightfully remembering the old school crawlers while talking about this one, but I really think LoG is more than just a nostaligic return to an old genre. I think it is right up there with the best of them ever made.

This is partly due to the puzzles. The puzzles in LoG are many and beautifully varied. And they always give you some kind of clue, even if very subtle, as to how to solve them. Many of the puzzles in the old school crawlers were simply luck-driven without any way to think them through. You just had to do the right thing or carry the right item without any kind of riddle attached to it. All the LoG puzzles let you solve them with your brain instead of dumb luck.

Except for one where you needed a particular item to get into a particular place ...
... although maybe I simply never perceived the clue.

I didn't solve everything, but I got really close. One Iron Door eludes me. And I never found a couple nice items that I know to exist. That means I'll just have to play it again.

Yeah, I went around looking for the clue that I missed after gaining entry - was expecting something like the flavor text for the item to have something, but no...

Thanks! FC was intentionally designed to be the most old school thing in LoG hence the increased difficulty and obscureness.

petri wrote:Thanks! FC was intentionally designed to be the most old school thing in LoG hence the increased difficulty and obscureness.

OMG, I just looked at your username and got it. I thought it was a word riddle for so long! Haha! Nice one.