{"id":2528,"date":"2012-04-18T19:50:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2012-04-18T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:52:59","slug":"eye-of-the-beholdergrimrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"Eye of the Beholder\/Grimrock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2529\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2529\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gui_revision-150x84.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Grimrock, Legend\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gui_revision-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gui_revision-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gui_revision-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gui_revision.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>is not going to be a review of sorts: However, I bought &#8216;Legend of Grimrock&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimrock.net\/\">producer<\/a>) the other day, which is an old-style hack-and-slash dungeon crawler a la &#8220;Dungeon Master&#8221;, or, rather, more to my experience, &#8220;Eye of the Beholder&#8221;. I&#8217;ve only briefly mentioned &#8220;Eye of the Beholder&#8221; before on this site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=780\">here<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>The game has been a resounding success, if I may say so: It looks like the Finnish developer has already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimrock.net\/2012\/04\/13\/launch-week-update\/#more-1686\">recovered the cost of producing the game<\/a>. This is surprising: Back when I played EOB (and EOB2) I always thought the introduction of games from Id Software (you know the 3D FPS) basically replaced the trusty dungeon crawlers: from one day to the other, these crawlers became &#8216;out of date&#8217; technology. No matter how you turn it: Quake, was the turning point for PC-gaming.\n<\/p>\n<p>While playing Grimrock, I run into frustrations as reported by many others on the Internets: however, most of them are actually <em>neglectable<\/em> if you think about the type of game Grimrock actually is: It&#8217;s a dungeon crawler. You&#8217;re supposed to take the time for it. For someone who finished both EOBs, like ages ago, the puzzles are what make these kind of games enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not going to be a review of sorts: However, I bought &#8216;Legend of Grimrock&#8217; (producer) the other day, which is an old-style hack-and-slash dungeon crawler a la &#8220;Dungeon Master&#8221;, or, rather, more to my experience, &#8220;Eye of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[515,514,240,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}