Once you've dispatched all the mystics, your stony foe's shield is gone. If you're in the right postion, his blows will cause his spellcasting buddies to fall to the ground, a prime location for you to do some fatal stabbing. The key is to lure stone-for-brains over so you can have him swipe at you when you're near the floating spellcasters.
Your rocky foe is essentially invincible, courtesy of a shield that's cast around him by mystics standing on floating platforms around the battle area. The level ended with a boss fight against an enthusiastic golem who turned out to be his own worst enemy. Once this is done, a new path will open up so you can proceed. A little later in the demo, things got more complicated when we came across one of the puzzles you'll face on the adventure: set points that require you to stand on them so you can absorb their energy until they are drained. As in previous games, we came across generators that spit out foes that required some bashing. The initial mobs the game threw at us weren't much of a threat, although they did look menacing. The early part found us doing what a valkyrie and warrior do best-a whole lot of killing-against a modest number of foes. The demo's structure basically amounted to a greatest hits of what to expect from a level in the final game. The playable level was a truncated run through one of the areas in the game that showed off the character's unique moves, the variety of locales, and some puzzles. Though the demo on display featured four playable characters, the only two ready for prime time were the old-school standbys the warrior and the valkyrie. The playable demo of Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows offered a stripped-down experience that was heavy on action and light on new story elements, which is one of the new aspects that will figure prominently in this latest entry in the series. While the limited demo offered a small sampling of what to expect from the final game, what we saw shows a good amount of promise. We've finally had the chance to get our hands on an early work-in-progress version of the game that's set to debut at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles next week.
GAUNTLET SEVEN SORROWS ON PC SERIES
The latest entry in the long-running series aims to revive the franchise, which went quiet after 2002's Gauntlet Dark Legacy offered a fresh story and deeper gameplay.
We've been anxious to get our hands on Midway's Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows since our initial look at the game earlier this year.
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