Mazes of Fate (GBA)

1st Person Dungeon Crawler

Mazes of Fate is a 1st person, faux 3D dungeon crawler for the Game Boy Advanced. I don't know how I missed this game until recently but I'm happy I found it (Thanks Tech Dweeb). I love this style dungeon crawler like D&D: Eye of the Beholder, Etrian Odyssey series and Wizardary series.

Mazes of Fate doesn't look like a typical GBA game to me as the art style is amazing and the color palette pops. The great dialog and writing make it an enjoyable RPG. It's made me chuckle when I thought I was being slick and the game called me out on my con to double dip the npc.

The 1st person dungeon crawling combat is more than I expected. Most work turn based where you move then monsters move but not Mazes. You can stand still and monsters will move toward you and attack. It's not fast paced but it's not turned based either. Mazes finds a nice happy medium and I find it very enjoyable.

The sound quality and music are the only questionable part but some of that is due to the limitations of the GBA audio. And at times I find the music to be very odd and not quite landing.

The next thing I need to track down is the lite “remastered” version that was released for the DS. It has actual 3D dungeons, fixes some bugs and adds some new dungeons.

This is a game I will be playing for awhile. I can't wait to play this on both the GBA and the DS. Rate 8/10