Ruzar - The Dark Stones Reviews

A non-intuitive mess. If you can get past the lego-looking graphics, the controls, spell casting, and constant road blocks may ruin your fun instead. I have no patience for collecting dozens of random things to fix a ladder to get to some other platform that may or may not help continue my quest. At one point I had so many quests built up, a villager told me to finish some of my current quests before I could get another. The developer says you don't have to do the crafting or side quests to finish the game, but it's impossible to know what's what. The characters you pick up in your party will randomly say things that have nothing to do with what you're currently trying to accomplish. You can be in a forest area and one will randomly blurt out "watch your step in these mines!" like that has anything to do with what you're currently doing.... The combat is your typical "dance around the enemy" that's implemented in a lot of real-time dungeon crawlers. It would be fine, except if you clear out an area and return...the exact same enemies will be back. It wouldn't be so bad but if you're like me you'll be going back to a number of the same locations again checking to see what you've missed to get past one of the many roadblocks in the game. I see a lot of time and love put in to this, but I can't help but feel disappointed as I really liked the first game in the series which came out a decade ago. Your mileage may vary with this one, but I can't personally recommend it. It seems like a game that made sense for the developer to play but not intuitive at all for someone who isn't understanding what's in the developer's head.