Tower of Time - Review @ COG

Tower of Time Review

I don’t have any experience with traditional CRPGs. To that end, I was pretty sure this game was gonna be a murderous slog, one that I would have to endure rather than enjoy. Turns out I was only half-right. Tower of Time is still a savage journey, but it’s one that compels me to keep coming back for more.

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Great RPGs make every battle feel necessary. At no point in my journey did I ever feel like I was grinding away or wasting time. Instead, my victories were hard-fought and properly savored. Although I’ve little experience with CRPGs in general, I did my level best to keep the difficulty at normal. My only concession was the portal battles. More so than even the boss fights, these stages felt like a brick wall against my forehead. After hours of suffering, I gave up and lowered it to the easy difficulty. Just for that battle, though! Afterward, I notched it right back up to normal. Even this felt like a personal failing, rather than some issue with the game’s design. In spite of these stages, the loot and the leveling system, I was never discouraged or bored. Between the pitched battles and the beautiful level layouts, I was always itching to get just a little further. If you’re a fan of CRPGs or just RPGs in general, you can’t go wrong with Tower of Time.

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Heckle said:

So I ended up picking this one up this evening. Only spent about an hour or so with it so far, enough to get through the prologue. So far so good. Story and environments seem pretty solid and I appreciate the banter between characters so far. I like the UI and there does seem to be some depth to the character building. The graphics are a little muddier than I was hoping…but still decent enough. Itemization seems a little weak as I would have preferred a little more flavor text to the equipment. Still too early for me to fully form an opinion but I like it so far and don’t regret the purchase.

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