Baroque for Wii Reviews by Gamers

While this game does get low ratings, it's fairly easy to see why. It's a very different sort of game. If you don't like fairly repetitive dungeon crawls and being shoved back to level one every time you complete a part of it, it's probably not for you.

However, the game does have an intriguing premise if you're willing to consider it. Every time you start over and go in, there's typically some new and interesting piece of information. You have to make excellent use of the training dungeons as well. The point of the game is very different, and I'd actually recommend looking for an FAQ or a walkthrough BEFORE you decide to get the game. They'll be very helpful in understanding whether you like it or not.

In Baroque, you play as some guy who has amnesia and is stuck in some sort of purgatory world. In order for him to escape and pay for his sins, he has to get to the bottom level in some tower.
It's too bad the game turns this setup into a dumbed down button masher.
Upon starting the game and going through the opening cut scene, I saw some very bad graphics; the scenery is bland and the monsters and other characters you meet are badly rendered.
After going through a training dungeon with a teacher who says "Goddammit" far too often, I headed into the tower.
Every level of the tower is the same: you wander about, beat up monsters by mashing the B button, pick up items and find the steps going down to the next level. Boring!
Most items don't do much and the inventory screen can get very cluttered; I had to throw away item after item to make room in case I found something useful.
Speaking of cluttering up my view, there's the map. It appears right in the middle of the screen and is transparent. This makes it hard for me to read it, so I had to wait for it to become opaque. Only then could I tell what areas of the level I missed.
But waiting about isn't something the game makers want you to do; your health bar goes down every moment that passes, like a timer. This forced me to run about the level searching for bland monsters to beat up so I can restore my health. If I didn't, my character would die and I would have to start the game over again from the beginning.
Amazingly, in order to get more insight to what's going on, this guy you play has to die a few times. But when you die, you have to start all over from the beginning. Going through the game once is frightfully dull. I have no desire to do it a second or a third time. Why can't they develop the story as you go through the tower?
Unless you are hard up for some mind-numbing, ugly, repetitive dungeon crawling action, then you best skip this game.