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Mazes of Fate maps out route to Europe

Posted Apr 8th 2008 2:15PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News

Signature Devices has picked up the rights to publish dungeon-crawler Mazes of Fate in Europe at some point this summer, with the game still to be released in the U.S.

Regular readers may recall us recoiling in horror upon first seeing the title in "action" earlier this year, but later impressions, combined with some above-average review scores, revealed our initial pessimism may have been misplaced. And that's pretty fortunate, because Europe remains thoroughly neglected by publishers when it comes to portable dungeon crawling, with Orcs & Elves the only current option.

Update: Looks like we got ahead of ourselves a little there -- as our commenters correctly pointed out, the U.S. is still waiting also!

Gallery: Mazes of Fate

Mazes of Update

Posted Feb 9th 2008 1:30PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Screens

The latest screens of Mazes of Fate DS show some quite nice 2D work in the outdoor areas. Being 2D fans, we were already quite enamored with the hand-drawn graphics of the GBA version and the similar style found in the non-fateful-maze areas of the DS game. But put in contrast with the 3D mazes, which are admittedly looking better and better, the 2D is vibrant and detailed. Maybe we're just old-school.

Then again, this is a dungeon crawler. Old-school is the appropriate mindset. Our gallery is flush with crisp new images for you to check out! Get out your graph paper and dive into the labyrinth of image files.

Gallery: Mazes of Fate

Get lost in this Mazes of Fate footage

Posted Feb 8th 2008 9:45AM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: Video

The last time we witnessed Mazes of Fate in motion, the results were not pleasant; even positive preview coverage of the title wasn't enough to convince us.

Thankfully, this new footage -- presumably of the finished product, as it launches in the U.S. on February 26th -- has eased our fears. Though somewhat more visually dour than other recent DS dungeon-crawlers such as Etrian Odyssey II or Orcs & Elves, at least we now know the game has something resembling a frame rate. It's a start.

Gallery: Mazes of Fate

[Via Go Nintendo]

Mazes of Fate: Impressions of Game

Posted Feb 5th 2008 2:15PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News

Just the fact that RPGamer's play session of the DS version of Mazes of Fate didn't end in a system crash is promising. The version we saw in video was troublingly incomplete and unplayable-looking. But this latest preview of Sabarasa Entertainment's GBA remake makes no mention of crippling framerate issues.

In fact, the game Michael Cunningham describes sounds pretty good: a competent 3D update of the original game with touchscreen-based inventory management and a combat system that involves looking around with the stylus and tapping enemies to attack. Of course, the DS version also contains that eternally useful DS game feature, the automap. As much flak as early DS games got for having one screen devoted to maps, it makes a ton of sense in a dungeon game.

We still question the necessity of making a pretty 2D game into a not-so-pretty 3D game, but the interface upgrades sound pretty great. Mazes of Fate DS will be out on the 26th, unless Amazon's right and it's out now.

Gallery: Mazes of Fate

Mazes of Fate: new and improved?

Posted Jan 24th 2008 3:00PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Screens

After the recent video debacle, we were a little concerned about Mazes of Fate. The fact that the new videos that were promised never showed up, either, is certainly something that makes us think hard about how things are going for the redone GBA title. It didn't show up on our list of official releases this week, but it was scheduled, and Amazon shows the title as available. Any fans of the GBA game pick it up? We ask because the screenshots on the website, and those we came across today (located in our gallery for your convenience) look better than those videos, but we burn for more information.

Gallery: Mazes of Fate

More like Mazes of Shame [update]

Posted Jan 17th 2008 4:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Video

Mazes of Fate had kind of a hard time finding an audience. It came out just too late to be marketable. Graffiti Entertainment is correcting the original error (being a GBA cartridge) by releasing a version of the game on DS. When we first heard about it, we were lazily outraged about the idea of a year-old game being ported to the DS. However, our outrage was misdirected, because Mazes of Fate on the DS is more than a port.

Having looked at these videos, it should have been a port. They've remade the dungeon portions of the game in 3D, with ... a minor performance hit. Keep in mind that when the video and sound slow down to a crawl, that's not your Internet connection, or YouTube at work. That's the game. That's the video they chose to upload to show off the game. We wouldn't be so concerned if this were extremely early footage, but ... the game is supposed to come out next week.

The videos aren't embedded, because you have to push the little rectangle button on the real YouTube player to get them to display in the correct resolution. They're at least marginally better that way. Seriously, though, we wish Graffiti had been lazier and just given us the GBA game with a map on the top screen.

[Update: the videos have been removed from YouTube. New videos should be available soon at Graffiti Entertainment's website.]

[Via NeoGAF]

Markdown of Fate

Posted Dec 29th 2007 7:30PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: GBA, Sales

Mazes of Fate has some impressive graphics for a GBA release, and it also has the distinction of being the first Latin American-developed game for a Nintendo console. So, why did no one pick it up? Three reasons:

As a handheld first-person RPG -- think Eye of the Beholder -- it has no mainstream appeal
It's a GBA title that didn't come out until late 2006, long after most people stopped paying attention to GBA games
It has virtually no presence in brick and mortar locations; the official site suggests you purchase Mazes of Fate on eBay

Seeing as none of those issues relate to the actual quality of the game, we think you should still pick up Mazes of Fate if you're interested in it at all, especially since Toys "R" US has the dungeon crawler on sale for only $9.99! Move forward and past the break to watch the four-minute trailer publisher Graffiti Entertainment put out for the game.

See also: Mazes of Fate getting ported from GBA

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