Cel-shading makes a dungeon slightly less painful

Posted Apr 19th 2008 12:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports, Screens

One of the many DS games on the way from Success Corp. is this beautiful dungeon crawler, Genmu no Tou to Tsurugi no Okite. Roguelikes are hot on the DS, and they're an old genre -- why not first-person dungeon crawlers? They're just as ancient. And Etrian Odyssey has proven that people will still subject themselves to the kind of treatment such a game offers. Characters are created through dice rolls, combat is turn- and text-based, and death is assured.

Genmu no Tou to Tsurugi no Okite (The Tower of Mist and the Sword of Law) has had more attention put into its graphics than usual, sporting an amazing cel-shaded look. If that's too modern for you, though, you can turn it off and play it in a black-and-white 8-bit mode!

[Via Siliconera]

Tags: dungeon, genmu-no-tou, rpg, success, tower-of-mist

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4-21-2008 @ 6:11PM

Trinian said...

YERARG!!

The sound of a fragile mind consumed by memories of Wizardry...

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