Both the inventory and upgrade system are presented well, and gamers who like to tweak and individualize their character might enjoy the process.ĭaggerdale is a lengthy adventure, but most of the monsters and quests start to feel reiterative after the first couple of hours. The baseline Dungeons & Dragons systems also deliver an enjoyable leveling experience, even if the implementation here is a broad abstraction of the tabletop ruleset. By selecting powers and weapons that complement your partner, the game takes on a more strategic and enjoyable flow, even if all the technical and design problems remain. Poor single-player balancing is largely resolved by playing with a friend, thanks to some adjustments to difficulty that seem tied to the number of players – two offline or up to four online. On the brighter side, Daggerdale does have a decent co-op mode that’s available either online or offline. Layer on any number of little glitches, from enemies that freeze in mid-combat to item pick-up notifications that don’t disappear after you grab them, and Daggerdale feels like a long series of missteps. Targeting during combat is haphazard and jumps easily between different foes. The small variety of enemies usually spawns out of nowhere, often only a few feet away from your character. Your dungeon map won’t scroll to reveal areas beyond the visible area, so you often can’t even tell where your next objective might be. Quest areas are darkly lit and repetitive, and you’ll be forced to backtrack through each zone many times on various fetch and kill missions. Accept a quest, and all others disappear there’s no quest log, so you have to complete each quest on its own before you can go back and get another. A lifeless world of unmoving NPCs awaits you in each quest hub. As soon as the action gets going, we start running into some problems. The heroes have a fairly standard kill-the-villain quest in front of them, and off they go to save the region from the bad guys. There are four unique character classes, each with their own abilities and unique power sets. It’s all pretty simple, right? Daggerdale is a case study on exactly where the genre can go wrong. It’s easy to take certain simple things for granted in a game built around monster killing, loot collection, and leveling. This downloadable game is filled with problems from beginning to end, but a solid leveling system and functional co-op play could make committed players smile through the drudgery. Poor design decisions, questionable tech implementation, and repetitive, unoriginal action keep the game from that goal.
Daggerdale has all the elements of a fun dungeon crawler.
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