Lands Of Lore Guardians Of Destiny (PC CD Boxed)

Rating:
Summary: Engrossing and impressive
Review: A fan of mostly Zelda & Metroid (with some FF & Castlevania and the like tossed in) I was initially taken back by this games style.

Much like a first person shooter, this game is like a mix between a Final Fantasy Quest with a Metroid Prime perspective.

The fighting can be damned hard, real hard. You get a target for aiming, but combining the target control with arrows, magic and your sword can be real tough when bombarded from all sides.

Fortunately you play this game by wondering, so you can find easier battles and toughen up, you skip around and do other things, collect different objects until about halfway, then the storyline takes over and you move into a new area and basically the second phase of the game.

Fans of intricate story lines will be dissapointed, and those who love long side quest won't find them here, although there are linking taske that can change the outcome of what items you end up with.

The brunt of this game is you, Arthur, are curse to change between a tiny, fast lizard and a large, sluggish but hard to kill beast. What I never could do was master switching between them, there is supposed to be a way to possess the power to change at will but the instructions never worked for me. Shame, you get real caught for long peroids of time stuck because your too big, or too small to get somewhere.

Over all a good, solid, lush-graphic filled game that runs super smooth on todays fast computers and still looks great!

A lot of fun and hours of exploring and wondering.