Comments on: Thoughts: Druidstone

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 23:02:53 +0000

Same, I never played for more than 45 minutes at a time. I think that’s fine, though. I’ve stated in the past I don’t need games to be dozens of hours long, and Druidstone’s sessions and overall length are just large enough to occupy a week of light play during the evenings and a couple of weekends. That’s ideal for Druidstone; it means it doesn’t outstay its welcome.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 22:58:41 +0000

Yeah, it is a bit surprising now that you mention it — combat was always the weakest part of the two Grimrock games by some considerable distance. In that context I’d almost call Druidstone an attempt to prototype some more interesting party-based combat ideas that stay true to the spirit of Grimrock, except they’ve stated Grimrock is effectively on ice and it’s extremely unlikely that we’ll get Grimrock 3.

By: Andrew Ahn

Andrew Ahn — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 10:24:18 +0000

Yeah thsi chimes with my experience.

I load this up for half hr bouts, when I want to puzzle over a mission, maybe 2. More than that and the trial and error nature of the missions, the puzzlyness, starts to annoy.

By: ilitarist

ilitarist — Mon, 27 May 2019 13:05:43 +0000

This sounds interesting.

I’ve recently played Fell Seal which is a Final Fantasy Tactics rip off. It too has a linear design as in you have a set of missions with very few sidequest. There’s infinite grinding through replaying older maps with random enemies. Also very flexible difficulty options.

But the game had certainly outstayed its welcome and the usual JRPG story didn’t help. Druidstone sounds much more brief which is probably right for a combat-focused RPG. Sounds like a jam. Thanks for the review!

Also surprised that Grimrock devs did it. I very much not liked combat in their previous games. I associated first-person view party combat with a tactical depth of Wizardry 8 or M&MXL and Grimrock felt like a cheese fest. I also never realized why did they have to combine *party* RPG with a puzzle game where most of puzzles would be trivial if more than one person was there to solve them.