Dark Spire for Nintendo DS Reviews by Gamers

I've played a lot of dungeon crawlers before, but this one lets the aggravating logistics of reality overwhelm its fun. Death comes frequently, and with no shortcut back to the town outside, you're as likely to have your party wiped out as you are to make money. Repetitive and dull...far from the best I've seen.

This game reminds me of the bard's tale games for the original nintendo. It's even harder to build up your character levels, though. It's also almost impossible for your thieves to disarm traps. It took forever(at least 5 hours) and many deaths but I finally built up my characters to level 3 and I still wasn't able to disarm difficult(which is most of them) traps. I also was unable to explore the 2nd level of the tower without being killed by the first set of monsters I ran into. There are also only 4 places to visit besides the tower. There is the temple of Order/chaos(depends on your characters' charactor), the guild, the inn, and a shop. The dungeon itself might be interesting, if you can actually manage to get far enough into it without dying, but if you don't like working to level your characters don't bother with this game.