Critic Reviews
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Nintendophiles
There is immense replay value, as the game contains 27 levels, and you can re-enter area once you’ve already completed them, should you desire to.
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GamerWeb Nintendo
As long as you don’t expect the fast pace and energy (not to mention multiplayer action) of it’s arcade and console counterparts you should have fun with this game.
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GameZone
Gauntlet with no multiplayer is like trying to drive a car with no tires. What the heck is up with that?
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Nintendo Power
Fun but repetitive. [Mar 2003, p.137]
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Game Over Online
Multiplayer is quintessential to the Gauntlet franchise -- I'm not sure how it could survive without it. With anemic gameplay, less than stellar visuals, something is found wanting in Dark Legacy.
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GameSpot
A fair adventure in button pressing, but that's as far as it goes.
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| 35 |
GameSpy
A hack-and-slash fest in its most basic, embarrassing form -- and faulty, at that.
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All Game Guide
The biggest issue players will likely have is fighting off sheer boredom instead of a pack of orcs, trolls, or scorpions.
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IGN
It's a slow and dull action game with very little technique. Top that off with NO MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT, and there's really no reason to play this game. It's not fun.
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Pocket Games
A slow, ugly, frustratingly bad adaptation that doesn't even deserve to have the Gauntlet name attached. [July 2003, p.32]
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Yahoo! Games
Playing this game is as tedious and as painful as your morning workout on the stairmaster, without the pain-for-gain benefit of developing six-pack abs.
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Game Informer
The graphics are horrendous, and the gameplay is so painfully slow that I contemplated defenestraing this cartridge from the fourth story window of our building in hopes that I would never have to see it again. [Mar 2003, p.92]
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