Dungeons & Dragons - Eye of the Beholder is a Role-Playing (RPG) game developed by Pronto Games, Inc. and published by Infogrames, Inc. in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance.

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Overall 7.2    Graphics 3.3    Sound 2.7    Addictive 7.3    Story 4.3    Depth 5.3    Difficulty 6.3


Eye of The Beholder Review   dhregin
I recently played and beat Eye of the Beholder. It took me all day (yesterday now), and was challenging and interesting. The game's deep D&D routes hooked me in, with the ability to create my own characters and see how far they would get together. I felt wrapped up in a classic Dungeons and Dragon's quest, and loved it to the end.Graphics: 4The reason I say the graphics is a mere four is because they are older GBA graphics to be sure. The gameboy advanced was capable of better, it just didn't have better. But, it could've been far worse. Everything was a little weak graphically, but in a way, it was alright. The first person camera outside of combat was kind of cool, and allowed for some great immersion.Sound: 4The sound in the game leaves much to be desired. With nothing but an intro alarm, and outtro alarm to signify the beginning and end of battles, and some somewhat annoying shrieks during the battles, the game is mostly quiet in battle. You hear the same old sound affects often. However, the quiet eeriness is well placed out side of combat. The occasional footsteps and mysterious laughter, or even the shrieks were unique at first, but by the end of the game it all drowns out into background noise as you meticulously crawl around the sewers.Addictiveness: 9This game hooked me hard, I couldn't put it down. Truly, I bothered my girlfriend by not putting it down. I yearned for the feeling of advancement, for the solving of the many unexplained puzzles. Unlike Playing Tabletop D&D, this game was unique in the way it went unexplained. You saw what you saw and nothing more. You could try what you could try, and no  one gave you hints, or too detailed explanations that lead you to the answer. There were many spots where I wandered around aimlessly lost, and others where I really had to scratch my head in confusion. But in the end, I bypassed these challenges and it felt good doing so.Story: 5The Story of the game had some good hooks and things, but unfortunately the way it was delivered leaves something to be desired.In the beginning there is a cut scene detailing exactly whats going on, or the gist of it really, and how you get to the start of the game. However, from there on out your story is fully based upon conversations with npcs in the game. You hear someone mention a name here, another enemy screams out "you shall die and never destroy so and so's plans!" and things of that ilk.  Unfortunately, this leaves plenty of room for you to miss npcs, miss conversations, and thus miss huge parts of the story. I mean honestly, I'm not even sure what the boss of the game did that was so bad. SPOILER: I just know people worked for him, and they planned to destroy a city. And they kidnapped some dwarves or something.Depth: 7The game was deep out of combat. Exploration, Dungeon Delving, side quests! It was truly great! The fact that you could find new companions to replace any that had possibly died (permanently) was really cool, but I felt like the story behind this feature wasn't detailed enough to be believable. At times, it was, at times it wasn't. The Combat gets repetitive after a while, depending on your party make up. If you had two mages like I did, combat was not too bad because they kept getting new spells to use... one of which ended up permanently killing my healer... ha.With Puzzles, exploration, traps, treasure, and all the key features of Dungeons and dragons present, I would give the Depth a 7, despite being a linear first person dungeon crawl with Turn based Combat.Difficulty: 6The game wasn't too easy, but wasn't too difficult either. It didn't hold your hand and tell you how to figure out the puzzles, or the teleporter ridiculousness (oh, you'll see.) and when a party member died, they were gone for good. Items don't explain what they do- there's no way to tell how good your weapon is until tested in combat. Your stats are very limited and some items I never found out what they did- they were just cool sounding so I used them. The easier part of this game is that when a party member dies, its not hard to replace them. The downside is that they are usually replaced by a fresh level 1 character... thus making things difficult. I find that this game is one you can actually fail and have to start the entire thing over.. So there is some risk to your actions. Overall: 7.3Despite the slow combat, and the horrible lack of good music or sound, the game was fun and addictive. The difficulty, advancement, puzzles, and hints of story here and there kept me going straight at it for an entire day, unable to put it down. It was classic, and represented a true Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Crawl. Being stuck underground for 7 levels (1 to 7!) without being able to go back to town was a crazy thought to me! Being interrupted during rests, and battling nearly constantly made living life at all a dreadful idea! It was great. With some battle music, and some detailed item and feat descriptions, this game could be a quality product. Fans of Neverwinter Nights, or any other D&D based game, this is an adventure worth playing.
  Graphics 4   Sound 4   Addictive 9   Story 5   Depth 7   Difficulty 6
      Review Rating: 4.8/5     Submitted: 03-02-13     Review Replies: 1


Old-School Indeed!   Izlude
I have to admit that this is an old favorite of mine. Dungeons and Dragons: Eye of the Beholder takes place in a medieval-esque  city that has been besieged by a dark force, whom have captured the King's daughter, and dragged her into the depths of the dungeon sprawl underneath the vast city. The King has summoned his fiercest, and brightest, to track down and return his daughter, and to quell the evil forces that threaten to bring darkness to all the realm!The game itself is quite mediocre, as far as the animations and sounds go... okay, actually, they're quite horrid! The combat uses figurines to represent your characters, much as a tabletop D&D session would go, using 3.0 rules, yet offering only a small selection of classes and feats to choose from (Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, Wizard, all you need really), and offering no clever animations other than "*pokes with sword* *RaaaawWWRRR! -damage pip-". The dungeon exploration itself is a throw back to DOOM, and others where you use the cursors to move your first-person point of view, solving puzzles, opening locks, decrypting ancient clues, and disarming traps. The difficulty in this game comes from the difficulty that any D&D session would present at the beginning... you utterly suck until you gain a few levels and find better equipment. Expect to Miss! blow after blow, and unless you build a decent starting character, dying in one hit. It's all up to the dice, as it were, until you learn Fireball. Who doesn't looove Fireball? But don't expect to be chucking those around until you go through the hard grind of leveling up. There's another set of difficulties that come from the odd movement and camera angles during combat; you have to press down AND right to move right-ish, and up AND left to move left-ish.I guess I just have a bit of a bias towards this game, but I grew up with adult D&D freaks, and this game was bought for my 12th birthday. It goes to show you that as in most games, you get out of it what you put into it. Thanks for reading my review!Izlude
  Graphics 4   Sound 2   Addictive 8   Story 6   Depth 4   Difficulty 8
      Review Rating: 4/5     Submitted: 12-28-11     Review Replies: 2


Possibly the most boring game I keep playing.   thudricdholee
I originally owned the actual cartridge of this game when I was a kid-my brother got it for me for Christmas because we both played Dungeons and Dragons and loved RPGs. However, it really wasn't very good and I put it away when I got other, more interesting games.

Now, though, I find myself going back to it. With patience that I lacked as a kid, I am finding this game wasn't quite as bad as I remember. Not much better, but not terrible. Mostly. Kind of.

One of my biggest pet peeves with this game is that it's really difficult to tell what weapon or armor is better than the other. I had to resort to pulling the information off of the internet; the slow, painful process of equipping it and then going to the status screen to see what it was doing is annoying and sometimes confusing.  Not to mention that there's no way to find out if a particular piece of armor slows you down until you actually wear it into battle. It wouldn't have been that hard to put that information in the game itself, seriously.  

Like most D&D games, you can make your own party, selecting your race (from a whole five choices) and your class (from the basic four). You can choose to roll your own characters or select from half-decent pre-made characters. Just as a tip, you can pick up a cleric and a mage fairly quickly in the game (bringing your original party of four to six), so your best best to start is a party of two warriors, a cleric and a thief to start. You'll use those two clerics, believe me.

Graphics: 2

The graphics are terrible. Really terrible. You have basic boring dungeon walls in various shades of green and grey, blobby bad guys that all kind of look the same, and terrible character animations that all look remarkably alike. You get your choice of like ten or so portraits for your characters, all of them fairly boring and similar, and ten or so boring sprites. The dungeons look so much alike that it's very easy to get lost.

This game is a 3D...ish...first-person adventure game when you're exploring the dungeon, but it switches to a sort of top-down strategy map thing during battles.The battles are turn-by-turn, with no time limit on making your decisions. And if it's possible, the battle graphics are worse than the dungeon explorer graphics.

Sound: 2

Terrible, electronic, repetitive horribleness. I used to turn the sound all the way down, and here I muted it almost right away. The battle sounds are ridiculous; it sounds like you're sharpening a knife when you hit with your sword and there's a dull thud when you hit with a blunt weapon, and the death noise is startling-it sounds like someone yelling out something unintelligible from just right behind you.  

Addictiveness: 5

If you're the type of person who can patiently slog through battle after battle to get your stats up, who enjoys farming for experience and gets a thrill from collecting new pieces of equipment, this is the game for you. If you findt that really annoying, then avoid this game at all cost. I'm someone who gets a quiet thrill from climbing levels and filling out the corners of the map, so I do enjoy this game. That being said, I do have to admit that I can't play it for long stretches of time without dying of boredom. It's the kind of game I play between other games, when I need something slow and that I can look away from.  

Story: 2 

Typical Dungeon and Dragon story-the city's in trouble, please go beat up the bad guy. There's not a lot of side story or depth there, just pretty much a shallow excuse to get a bunch of idiots...er, i mean 'heros', to go down and tramp through a series of dreary dungeons and kill stuff.

Depth: 5

You're not going to blow through this game; it becomes necessary to slog through the entire dungeon in search of the elusive key that will open the right door. Plus you do need to do some fighting to build levels, or you will get killed. Other than that, there are a fairly good series of dungeon floors for you to move through. Not a very in-depth game at all, but at least you won't finish it in a day.

Difficulty: 5

The only reason I give it a five for difficulty is that the monsters have a tendency to box you into a corner so that the only people who can attack are the two in the front and anyone with a ranged weapon (although ranged weapons tend to miss a good 85% of the time, making this a sucky option anyway). Other than that, it's not that hard, as long as you fight along the way. If you don't end up fighting a bit, you'll find the later dungeon monsters quite difficult indeed. 

Overall: 5.5

I am giving it a fairly middle score overall because it's just not a very good game. It passes the time, it gives you a bit of enjoyment, but there are just better RPGs to play that give you the same feeling as this game but with better options. This really hasn't aged well at all, which is too bad as I tend to enjoy vintage games pretty well.  Unless you're really dedicated to D&D and/or really really enjoy this type of game, I just don't recommend it.
  Graphics 2   Sound 2   Addictive 5   Story 2   Depth 5   Difficulty 5
      Review Rating: 3.4/5     Submitted: 01-04-13     Updated: 01-04-13     Review Replies: 3

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