Since the time “Global A Entertainment” first unveiled the original Dungeon Maker series on the PSP, it has been an absolutely one man show with no counter game competent enough to give it any viable competition whatsoever. This unprecedented level of absolute superiority speaks a lot about the quality of this game series, but in another context, and an ironical one at that, it also highlights the pathetic situation that this genre on the PSP is currently in. What is even more disheartening is that the developers with just a little more creativity and effort on their part can really transform the genre and bring it to life. Meanwhile, the established group of the Dungeon Maker series are back with their latest and probably their best effort, the Dungeon Maker II. The game has all the impressive traits of the popular game series, and though it has some visible omissions in the form of little polish or atmosphere, it hardly comes in the way of this game from becoming a sure fire entertainer, which exponentially enhancing the gaming experience.
The Dungeon Maker II draws strength from the fact that it is not your typical pick-up-and-play experience, which most people falsely presume to be the objective of the PSP developers. In stark contrast, what you get is a game whose every component is an uncharacteristically slow burn, of course with the intention to incorporate more and more instructions and advices so that you don’t feel loss amidst the surrounding confusing labyrinth. It really creates the perfect ambience for you to get under the skin of the character and cut through the defence of the monsters, so that you can lay your hands at the fang or fur and keep it all for yourself.
You get to understand the story, which interestingly goes back to some 70,000 years, at the very onset, when a truce between the gods and the demons. The truce not only highlighted the innate superiority of the gods over the devils, but also served the purpose of protecting human beings from being wiped out from the world by the later. In a flash forward the present times, you are encountered with a demon by the name “Revenger” who is conniving to create hysteria and fear among the human populace.
It is here that you as the bespectacled protagonist and dungeon maker make a hero’s entry. You zoom your way to the epicentre of the conflict, a quaint little town, and tunnel your way into the centre of the earth to save just about everyone, while at the same trapping the monsters inside.
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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