Deltora Quest – Nanatsu no Houseki

Now that the DS is winding down in preparation for the release of the 3DS, I’ve been taking the time to go back buy or and pirate those games I’d always meant to try but never had the time or money to.

First on the list is Deltora Quest: Nanatsu no Houseki (the seven treasures). Unfortunately I didn’t get very far with the game. I’d heard a little bit about Deltora Quest here and there, a young adult fantasy series about a blacksmith’s son trying to save the world. I’d even seen an episode of the anime, which was really boring to be quite honest. Still, I’m a fan of RPGs and I’m a fan of fantasy series so I thought I’d give it a shot.

So I gave it a shot. For about 30 minutes. 30 minutes of lots of talking, but that’s standard for RPG openings. Only…the story wasn’t very interesting. Neither were the characters. The character design was squat and ugly and the graphics were meh. Well, it was an early DS release. As such it also suffers from that terrible habit early DS developers had of making all the controls touchscreen only. In short, it read horribly, looked horrible and played horribly. Plus it was an action RPG, which I tend to dislike unless something really stands out in the game.

In short, I can’t really give a review of this game. It is so not my sort of game that I really couldn’t keep going. Delete, move on to next.