by: Dakota Grabowski

November 20, 2005

One after another, you’ll recover your warriors in no time. The game effortlessly kept me entertained and never once had a dry spell. Within the first hour and a half (two if you take your time) you should have three warriors for your own personal use. Each warrior has their own unique ability to help you solve puzzles and travel around the worlds in a fast time. Ash, the crimson dragon, can unleash three fireballs into a direction to ignite lanterns in the distance to open up doors. With Rubble, he can fire rocks into a statues mouth to free up creatures that are trapped underneath the statue.

You can assign up to three warriors to your face buttons for hotkeys. At the tap of the button, you can morph without any hesitation to perform combos to increase your score for the levels. You are graded by your performance within each level and can gain achievements for your GamerScore online but I will cover that later in the review. You have three attacks to your use for each monster (Kameo is also useable for combat too); one is assigned to the Left Trigger and one to the Right Trigger. If you press both Left & Right Trigger at the same time, you’ll perform their special which uses their blue spirit bar.



With the blue spirit bar, you can upgrade it to have more for your attacks. Upgrading is easily as you have to find fruit scattered throughout the levels and gained from sub-quests. You don’t necessarily have to upgrade your power bar as you can use the fruit to upgrade for new attacks for your warriors. Kameo’s health bar too can be upgraded by drinking elixirs.

The sheer size of some levels are at least three times bigger than some of the levels currently on the Xbox. They can not be done on this generation. If you are wondering about the load times…short and brief. You won’t be waiting around playing with your thumbs counting down the time the game actually allows you to play again. The maps are visible on the screen at the bottom right hand corner. You can easily toggle the map on and off by tapping the Left Thumbstick in.