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Review: Lock’s Quest

April 27th, 2009 No Comments


Blizzard’s success with games bearing the suffix “-craft” has had some unintended consequences outside the occasional dead man in an internet cafe. Among them is the onset of genre myopia. Take strategy as an example: list off all the strategy games you can think of off the top of your head. You certainly listed off Warcraft and Starcraft, but how far down the list did you get before you reached a tower defense game? Blizzard’s runaway success redefined not only what strategy games are, but what they can be. So you mightn’t necessarily think of other takes on the genre like Dyson, Pikmin, or 5th Cell’s most recent title, Lock’s Quest. Here’s what it is and why you should.

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