I remember Dungeon Master fondly, even if I never finished it. It was a truly great game. One silent aspect of that was probably the lack of scripted story. Jus

I remember Dungeon Master fondly, even if I never finished it. It was a truly great game. One silent aspect of that was probably the lack of scripted story. Just a few fragments of text on scrolls and a few more scattered around, chiseled on the walls. (Author notes that story didn't really come into the play until the final level.) The level that killed my interest was the annoying, slapped-on-for-malevolent-humour "Zoom!". Everything until that point is a marvelous gaming experience, but the forced timing and counting based teleport field problem is a big misstep. In a game where sometimes returning to earlier levels was not only possible but also encouraged, facing that single funnel-like problem raised a terrible spectre of a thought: "I may need to go through that again". It killed the game for me. But considering how massive an influence Dungeon Master had on a generation of gamers, it's probably not a coincidence that the release of an indie game that promised the ability to relive the experience was was so eagerly expected. [0] Oh, to have time to play again... 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Grimrock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Grimrock