We’ve all played games that are frustratingly easy, as if the game designer decided that their audience was not smart enough to figure out the game mechanics on their own. Legend of Grimrock 2 by Almost Human Games, on the other hand, is a game that honours the player’s intelligence through its mind-bending riddles and puzzles and uncompromisingly challenging combat. Like the easy game that holds your hand, Legend of Grimrock 2 is at times frustrating, but in the best of ways. You’ll get stumped by a puzzle and throw down your mouse in defeat, only to come back ten minutes later having deciphered the solution. You’ll get beaten by a boss three times in a row, then go off and find a buried treasure with epic loot to help you kick its butt. Its a system that makes you feel truly smart and powerful for each puzzle solved and enemy trumped.
Kinglink says "Legend of Grimrock is a little game from Almost Human Games that came out in 2012. It was a rather solid dungeon crawler that had the player dive down through 13 levels of a dungeon that included combat and puzzles the entire way. It was a solid return to what used to be a major part of the computer industry. The party based Dungeon CRPGs. 2 years later Almost Human Games returned with Legend of Grimrock 2. And boy, what a sequel"
Just a little over a year ago, Almost Human Games released Legend of Grimrock 2, a follow up to 2011’s Legend of Grimrock. In a sense riding that first wave of gaming nostalgia that produced so many throw-back platformers and roguelikes, Legend of Grimrock 2 and its predecessor instead attempted to re-create the look, feel, and playstyle of early RPGs like The Bard’s Tale, Wizardry or Dungeon Master, albeit with more contemporary graphics and a few concessions to more recent mechanics.
Join Hardlydan, Amras89, and B1gBadDaddy for game talk and fun! This time, The Gamesmen talk about the latest Nintendo Direct, Sony shutting down OnLive, Quantum Break being delayed, a Gameboy iPhone shell, Elite: Dangerous comes to Steam, and Kinect no longer being made for Windows. Games discussed are Legend of Grimrock 2, ECCO: The Tides of Time, Life is Strange, Game of Thrones, Minecraft, Elite: Dangerous, Alien Isolation, Star Citizen, and Microsoft Flight Sim X.
