Too much tutorial before Lock's Quest is unlocked?

by JC Fletcher { Jul 9th 2008 at 9:30AM }

Stephen Totilo's brief impressions of 5th Cell's Lock's Quest aren't as sterling as previous impressions we've read, but only because he seemingly hasn't been able to get into the game yet. Given his status as an extreme Desktop Tower Defense fan, Totilo will probably be enchanted by the action/structure-building gameplay found in Lock's Quest, but first he has to endure a seemingly overlong tutorial level.

"I wanted to get going, to play it and enjoy it," Totilo said in a frustrated blog post. "But first it had to take me to school." Long tutorials have been a problem since games became complicated enough to need them (and since developers realized that we're not going to read the manual, no matter what). Just consider this fair warning that Lock's Quest is going to require a little prep time before it's suitable for pick-up-and-play.

Gallery: Lock's Quest

[Boxart via Gamefly]

Tags: 5th-cell, locks-quest, strategy, thq, tower-defense

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

neuralien @ Jul 9th 2008 10:56AM

I love DTD. I have no idea how much time I wasted playing it and I'm not sure I want to know. It got to the point that I played it at work instead of, well, actually working. I don't know if I should look forward to having something similar in portable format. My social life (ahem) just might end when this game is released...

aj @ Jul 10th 2008 2:35AM

I read the manual.

It's just that game manuals are often very, very terrible, and seldom actually tell you how the hell to PLAY the game (Did anyone else end up throwing the manual to "Unlimited SaGa" across the room while screaming all manner of swear words?).