![]() It works, and the game moves and plays fine, but it's odd, even funky. It's got a strange, FMV look to it that's off-putting. Graphics Visually, this game looks remarkably different than either the arcade or the Nintendo 64 versions. Fighting a boss ultimately requires at another player for it to be interesting in the least. The game's arcade nature is really obvious here, as you simply press start again to regenerate your life and then hack at the boss to eventually destroy it. You simply hack and slash at them until they die, or until you die again and again. The bosses are the best examples of this sensibility. These can be harder to find then you think.īut again, while the replay value of the game is truly remarkable, at its heart, Gauntlet Legends is at very minimum, a two-player game. With 13 Rune Stones in all, players are almost assuredly going to return to a level to find the Rune Stone, in order to open up yet another secret level to face the ultimate boss. Special weapons include the Ice Axe of Untar, the Flame of Tarkana, The Scimitar of Rasha, and the Marker's Javelin.ĭon't forget the Rune Stones. They include the Three Way shot, Fire Breath, Thunder Hammer, Invulnerability, Invisibility, and the Phoenix Familiar. The Spells themselves are fun on their own to collect. Also, in each regular area, players have a huge list of weapons, spells, keys, and food items, to collect. Four secret areas exist within the 20 levels, and each rewards you with a secret character, if you can beat it in the required time limit. The best thing about Gauntlet is the bountiful quantity of secrets and extras. You start out with one area, peppered with weak monsters, and easy-to-find Obelisks, and as you progress to the next areas, the AI gets more fierce, and the levels more complex. With 20 levels to play through, a single player literally has dozens of hours of game time. If you only own a PlayStation, and you love arcade-style hack-and-slash adventures such as Golden Axe or Dungeons and Dragons, then the game still has enough redeeming values to keep it fun and entertaining for quite while. The chaos is dampened, and so is the fun. ![]() With two players the game is still fun, and you still find those moments of disagreement and compromise of who takes the gold or who takes the ham, but the frenzied chaos of the three and four player games is lost. It retains some, but not all, of the communal fun that the others contained because it's only a two-player game. Unnecessary politics aside, Gauntlet Legends for PlayStation does a few things differently than its Nintendo 64 and arcade brethren. In an age where Doom is tagged as a "murder simulator" (and for the record, that label is blind, extremist propaganda), politicians can look at Gauntlet Legends to see how a fun and violent game builds friendships in a different - not better or worse - way than those in first-person shooters. Usually, personalities are fleshed at the cabinet, and where once total strangers were just looking blankly at each other, they're now helping each other out, working as a team, and slashing baddies together. It brings a fantastic communal aspect to the aspect of arcade gaming, as all players are meant to cooperate to reach the final goal (to collect everything possible and kill all the bosses). For those not familiar with Gauntlet Legends, the arcade version is a one- to four-player game. Gameplay After having seen a major delay, we're glad to see that Gauntlet Legends finally arrived on PlayStation.
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