Dungeon Lord Reviews

loved it

As always, TaleShop delivers a great VN that manages to elevate stories and characters that are usually cliches into something much more round and interesting. The gameplay does it's job of giving you something to do in between scenes but is simple so that it doesn't intrude on the story. My only criticism is that, while it does end on a satisfying conclusion, it feels like a part 1 (Especially with the post credits scene) and so I'm a little unsatisfied as it feels like it should have kept going and become even better. Still, I would definitely recommend it as a short, relaxing VN.

So this game, Dungeon Lord is a visual novel with bits of idle element in it though it doesn’t go into the extremes of most idle games I’ve seen on the gaming market whereas most would require you to idle for a long period of time to stock up on resources and advance. The story starts with the MC, Demon Lord Montecristo losing the all-out war against humans, getting killed by the hero, and sent back years into the past right after he conquered his first dungeon with his memories intact. Of course going back into the past has its own repercussions, Montecristo now has stats equivalent to a level 1 rook not including the HP decrease as opposed to his previous level 90 lord stats, basically he is just a punching bag or training dummy. His enormous HP stat will be an important instrument in how the story plays. The biggest obstacle Montecristo has right now is obviously the glaring weakness of his stats so he needs to think of new ways to recruit allies as opposed to his previous timeline where he just no-diffs everybody. He also gains a childlike form alongside his stat decrease after getting sent back to the past, wonder how that will go. The core element is the visual novel part, you can think of the idle bits as a break from all the reading. This is reinforced by how the game plays out the story, it is broken down into chapters that you can tap into whenever you want to continue the story again after idling in the game lobby. For the idle bits of the game you have two resources type which are gold and mana, the mana is used for summoning monsters that gain both mana and gold while the gold is used for researches which gets you more catalogue of monsters to summmon and evolves your monster to gain even more resources at a time. The story main genre is mostly comedic, it revolves around Montecristo and his subordinates, the 3 main heroines and a few important characters as the story advances. The art style and character designs are *chef’s kiss*, it’s definitely right up my alley. The music is decent enough. The whole story length alongside its limited character roster, is rather short. One biggest thing to note is the dubs, almost if not all texts that came from the heroines are fully voice-acted, I always appreciate dubs especially in a visual-novel game where the main element is reading. All in all for a casual and relaxing game with the points I mentioned and the price it puts up, it’s definitely worth the price. 8/10, go ahead and try it.