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Worth a rental, nothing more.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

(copied from my e-pinions review)
This was a pretty weak offering from the long-lived Gauntlet genre.

A buddy and I went through the game in its entirety in around four hours, and as best I can tell, the replay value is minimal. He started a game in a harder difficulty level, which resulted in a slightly harder game, with no foreseeable added value in the form of difficult puzzles, or what have you.

It's a button masher, and while they've tried to spruce it up by adding Mortal Kombat-style combos (O, X, X does a sweep attack, while L1-X attacks the ground) and some counterattacks, I had pretty good success just jamming on the square button for most of the game, with the occasional nuisance ranged attacker causing me to throw an axe at them (melee attacks are the flavor du jour, I almost never shot). No powerup items to be held in your inventory, no special class forms to look forward to, no hidden levels (that I saw, or were announced in the manual in my skimming of it); all were absent from Dark Legacy and releases earlier.

At the end of a level, if you've leveled up from XP gain, you get to increase your rating in Health, Damage, or Mana Regen. All go from 1 to 20. I finished the game with 10/11/1 respectively, I believe.

Aesthetics-wise, the graphics were passable (B-), the sound about the same, with clanging of swords and grunts from your character and dying critters.

I'd say the game is most appropriate for 8-10 year olds, who can slam on buttons and succeed, save that the story might be a little dark. It opens with a tale of the Heroes (your classic 4 from the old days) being crucified to the tree at the "Bottom of the World". After that, the story plods along, linear, into a series of six worldlets with a bossmonster at the end of each one. The bossmonsters don't need much cleverness to defeat, just a few lives and a lot of button pushes.

Even the classic Death doesn't show his face unless you find him in a chest. Yawn.

Shame on you, Midway!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What a piece of garbage this is! It is the shortest PS2 game I have ever seen (4 hours? maybe?) and is a major step backwards from its predecessor, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. Sure it has new features: online play and spiffy graphics, but at the expense of gameplay and anything resembling fun. No puzzles to speak of, fewer levels, fewer character types, no secrets to find, just swarms and swarms of monster generators.

It's just button mashing - and not very good even for those who like that. The "toss enemy," "projectile" and "swing sword" buttons are under powered, so you just hit the "break guard" button over and over until the magic meter is up and call on a spell and then go back to hitting the "break guard" button some more.

Did somebody tell you it had a story? Not quite - the opening FMV tells all there is to tell, before you get to the main menu!

This game is obviously one that had a deadline that came too early, so they cobbled together what they could and slapped a "new-game" price on it in the hopes of getting some suckers to fall for it. (And it worked on me...) Instead, we get a game whose only real saving grace that keeps it from the absolute bottom of my list is that it didn't crash in the middle.

There are far better games out there to spend your holiday money on, especially for people who liked the original Gauntlet.

A Simple review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game graphics is good, I'll say 5 times better than the gauntlet dark legacy version. But the game is missing alot of the sound effects.

The music for the stages are not as exciting as gauntlet legends ,plus you don't hear the enemies die or the game character morn for pain when hit by an enemy.

Its almost like playing a silent game, except for the basic background music.

I Think they could of done a better job putting this game together for the ps2.but still will recomend it for gauntlet fans.

If you loved the older Gauntlet games, you'll HATE this one.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you loved the older Gauntlet games, you'll HATE this one.

If you miss something on a level, you can not go back and replay the level once it is done. There are only limited upgrades to armor and weapons. You can only see what level your character is once you complete a level. You can only purchase attack combinations (and only a few at that) with your gold. We were able to complete the game in 4.5 hours. For $50 I expect a lot more game play.

A message to true gamers: DO NOT BUY

What a snoozefest!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My wife and I play any good 2-player games that we can get ahold of. Our favorites being the Champions and Baldur's Gate games. My wife really enjoyed Dark Legacy, I thought it was ok but too simple, there wasn't enough customization, and it wasn't long enough. When I first saw Seven Sorrows was coming out, I was still excited. I figured they would build on Dark Legacy and make a better game. Wow, was I wrong! There is virtually no customization. Sure, you can buy a few move upgrades which are useful but 1/2 way through the game I had bought them all and collecting gold was then meaningless!!! The enemies were quite easy to beat, even the bosses, the only thing it has going for it is by trying to overwhelm you with a few dozen opponents. But there are plenty of moves that can take care fo that. The storyline is lame and the "puzzles" are nothing more than finding a few (not hidden) switches. Kill, walk, kill, walk, kill, walk, kill, walk, die, come back, kill... repeat. Glad I waited and didn't buy this at full price, but still at $20 I feel I overpaid by about $10. Do yourself a HUGE HUGE HUGE favor. If you havn't played Baldur's Gate I & II and Champions of Norrath and Champions Return to Arms, go there and play those fantastic games. Don't waste your time & money here.

Other reviewers have been FAR too harsh. It is actually a good game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: February 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played this game by myself, and it took me around 4 and a half hours to beat.

During that time, not once did I actually experience a boring moment. There are some repetitive things in the game, such as constantly having to destroy the generators, but overall the levels are very entertaining to journey through, fight (slaughter, hack 'n' slash) and gather treasure.

Other reviewers have been very harsh on this game--- it doesn't deserve to be flamed! Most of you are comparing it to the other Gauntlet games, which is alright. But it is different from the other games in a lot of ways. As a stand-alone game, "Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows" is probably one of the best RPG/Fantasy games I have played on PS2.

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

nothing much to say apart from the fact that its the best game IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO GO GAUNTLET WOOT WOOT TOOT TOOT

don't be crazy, this game is good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Gauntlet Seven Sorrows happens to be a very good game, in my opinion. You go around progressing through mountains and destroying enemy spawns, and you can block enemy attacks. This is just a few of the many things you can do in the game. It's true that it only takes 4 hours or so to complete the game, but why is that a bad thing? Plenty of incredible games have been short. Just look at Resident Evil 2 and Mike Tyson's Punch Out.

short, repetitive but fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this gauntlet is nothing like the other one. it has maybe half as much levels and is too easy or boring at some parts. Me and two friends beat it in like a week then we were done with it and bored. this game is probobly better to rent than to buy. Another thing is that there is only four characters (warrior, wizard, elf and valkerie) compared to the other gauntlet with like 50 characters.

sorely missed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking i was retro back to the 80s, but sadly, i finished the game in about 2-4 hrs myself. completely. i would not recommend this for those who want to have fun at a game. it was too easy

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