Grim Grimoire Review

By Chris Hudak

Live to fight the same day.

Even for the very niche-y, oft-oddball catalog of NIS titles that find their way to American shores—the last one, you might recall, had a musical combat system—this is an unusual one. You’re Lillet, a new student at a famous school of magic offering the usual curriculum—Alchemy, Sorcery, Necromancy and Glamour. On…

  • Unique real-time strategy
  • Tweaky time loop
  • Stylish-verging-on-adorable
  • Lots of replay/bonus challenges
  • No mid-mission saves ” brutal
  • Players required to scroll around maps
  • No multiplayer/map editing

7

Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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