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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Van Cruncheon on August 19, 2006, 09:16:33 PM

Title: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 19, 2006, 09:16:33 PM

I picked up Deep Labyrinth DS on credit today because I was tired of owning only three DS games -- admittedly, they're the ONLY good games on the system -- but if I'm going to try and support this portable PSOne I'd at least better make some sort of honest effort. Bye bye several mediocre PS2 games, hello archaic dungeon crawl.

Anyway, I'm enjoying it, way more than the tacky logo indicates one might. It's like a really gay-ass King's Field (I've made the "Queen's Field" gag in like forty different IM conversations, and it's now officially negative funny) with stylus controls for sword slashing and magic. You play as a sixth-grader caught in some parallel dimension hunting for his dog and his abusive parents. It's fuckin' dumb as hell, but the translation is competent. The graphics are hard on the eyes, but the Mitsuda soundtrack is actually pretty good. The monsters all seem like giant non-sequiturs plopped down into the middle of the dungeons, but hey: I'm from the RPG old-school and I prefer my dungeon crawls to be devoid of logic and consistency.

That said, once you get past the initial areas, the mazes and puzzles get pretty devious, and the game becomes pure King's Field. I'm oddly compelled to keep playing, despite the amateurishness of the whole affair -- there's always an upgrade or loot or weird-ass encounter around each corner. Kind of like King's Field.

So WTF me. It's better than Tao's Adventure and Lost Magic, at any rate.

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: BlueTsunami on August 19, 2006, 09:25:56 PM

The King's Field comparisons are making me wet. This may be the game that makes me dive for a DS Lite...

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 19, 2006, 10:30:11 PM

You know how I know this game is gay?

It has a spell called ASTRAPE.

:o

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: demi on August 19, 2006, 10:56:20 PM

lawl, even i wouldn't buy this

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 19, 2006, 10:58:34 PM

demi, you gonna get ASTRAPE  :burgerking

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: demi on August 19, 2006, 10:59:15 PM

I have an Xbox Live camera, buy UNO and play with me schnookums

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 19, 2006, 11:02:15 PM

I'll be playing Texas Hold 'Em next week, cumsnuggles.

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: demi on August 19, 2006, 11:05:00 PM

that is for faggers and lonely old men

come over to the children's table

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: TVC15 on August 19, 2006, 11:13:12 PM

Quote from: demi on August 19, 2006, 11:05:00 PM

that is for faggers and lonely old men

come over to the children's table

Demi, come play chromehounds.  There's plenty of gapin' anus for both of us.

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: BlueTsunami on August 20, 2006, 04:15:08 AM

Quote from: Drinky Crow on August 19, 2006, 10:30:11 PM

You know how I know this game is gay?

It has a spell called ASTRAPE.

:o

:lol

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 20, 2006, 09:22:41 AM

How are the touch screen controls though? Everything I've heard suggests that they're kinda lame

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 20, 2006, 11:44:22 AM

Touch screen controls are ALWAYS lame, friend.

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 20, 2006, 12:23:50 PM

Well how can you enjoy the game with such a control scheme?

Title: Re: Deep Labyrinth DS -- gay, but oddly amusing
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 20, 2006, 12:54:30 PM

Because dungeon crawling will always trump awful controls. See: King's Field.