NL:
While Excave II made some nice quality of life improvements to the original formula, it inexplicably seems like most of Excave III's changes are for the worse. All of the different weapons have now been united under one character, which can be a good or bad change depending on how you look at it, but losing everything you worked for after each dungeon makes the experience significantly less gratifying, especially when coupled with the bland, samey environments and near identical dungeon layouts. Perhaps appropriately, Excave III is priced a little cheaper than its predecessor, but if you desperately want to check the series out we'd advice plonking down that little bit of extra eShop credit for the second game instead.
Excave 3 is a short game with a large online crowd all clamoring to be number one on the leaderboards. We enjoyed our time with the game, though we'd be lying if we said we didn't miss the structure introduced in the previous Excave game. The lack of a town to sell loot and buy gear and spells was missed exponentially. Even with all the faults, the game is charming in its own way and is a worthwhile game to experience.
