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Having any fun in this game would cost a fortune.Even multiplayer is a forgettable affair at best.
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Attempt to play Dungeon Keeper at the pace of the 1997 version, and you'd find that your bank account drains faster than your dungeon's gold hoards after heroes reach them. The original Dungeon Keeper thrives on speed and the frantic rush to build your dungeons and set up traps before heroes arrive under this model, clicking on the campaign maps that unleash the adventurers to face their doom feels more like a pulling the string on a wind-up toy and watching it until it slows down and dies all too quickly. Waits that shouldn't even exist, save in the smallest of doses. Pay up, Dungeon Keeper beckons, and all the waits will end.
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The burden grows worse when you try to upgrade the dungeon heart and workshops that spit out poison traps and freeze traps, especially when the latter cost piles of stone (and associated hours) that number far more the reasonable limits of your mine's capabilities. Those games made me feel like the dungeon master Dungeon Keeper, with its insistence on slapping us with ever more gem payments to speed up common tasks, makes me feel more like a lowly imp. Both did it with more style and humor than this, even in their weakest moments. Games like Impire and Dungeons have tried to fill the Dungeon Keeper-shaped hole left by the series’ 15-year absence, and neither asked for no more than 40 bucks all told. After all, and the menu lets me know with a triumphant green banner that this is Dungeon Keeper's "best value." Perhaps a dumber version of myself would think that means I should get the $100 pack instead, so I could score the sweet discount and get 14,000 gems. Then there’s the extra squares I'd have to carve out for 3x3 rooms and traps.
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And that's just to clear an imp-wide path. To reach to the point on the map that compelled me to start digging in the first place in any reasonable amount of time, I would have had to repeat the process 14 times, for a cost of seven dollars. You can get 500 for $4.99, so it’s not outrageous until you consider this: that was the cost for just one square. The idea, of course, is to get me to spend 49 premium gems to speed up the process, with each one representing roughly one cent. If you've played a lot of free-to-play games, particularly on a mobile device or Facebook, you can probably guess where Dungeon Keeper goes horribly wrong. I canceled that order almost as soon as I'd started it – ain't nobody got time for that. I commanded my imps to start chipping at the walls leading beyond our four-hallway enclosure to find out what awaited at the edge, and suddenly their work time shot up from a few seconds to four hours. But before I'd even reached the point where I could upgrade rooms or units, I found my diabolical plans interrupted. Commanding imps to dig out the main dungeon encased by four corridors takes a short amount of time, and the same goes for the construction of rooms like dark libraries for spells to help you guard your dungeon's all-important heart. When I did, it was shocking how quickly Dungeon Keeper's strong foundations began to rot away. For a time I was lured in, and I was eager to finish his thorough tutorial so I could jump in and enjoy it for myself. Deep-voiced and reeking of twirly mustached evil, he's a satisfactory narrator for the experience of designing tower-defense-style dungeons that make life miserable for invading do-gooders.
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It shows up most prominently in the tutorial, where a crimson demon breaks down the rules with groan-inducing quips and tips on how to slap imps around for speed bonuses. Sift past a questionable art and sound style that suggests a union of Brutal Legend and Disney, shatter the chains of the payment model, and you'll find glimpses of a good game buried under the rubble. You can almost hear Dungeon Keeper trying to claw out of its own trap. The tools fit this new take on the beloved top-down strategy game and its devilishly fun concept of playing as an evil lord of an underground fantasy lair, but a highly inappropriate free-to-play model keeps the fun chained in dungeons of its own. I point it there, and fire shoots from my fingers. I point my finger here, and imps scurry to dig out tunnels. Designer Peter Molyneux's early masterpiece might’ve even been better on a touch-screen device, in fact the dance of fingers on glass adds a dose of dungeon-master roleplay previously didn't exist.
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If there's any classic PC game that seems tailor-made for mobile play, surely it's 1997’s Dungeon Keeper.