When comparing Celestian Tales: Old North vs Legend of Grimrock, the Slant community recommends Legend of Grimrock for most people. In the question“What are the best PC RPGs?” Legend of Grimrock is ranked 66th while Celestian Tales: Old North is ranked 75th. The most important reason people chose Legend of Grimrock is:
Much like tradition dungeon crawlers the combat is tile based where in each move is one tile at a time, just as an enemies. This makes for a good way to plan ahead of time by counting how many moves it takes to get to certain point or how many hits to kill an enemy.
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Pros
Pro Good design
The art design is well done, which colorful portraits and backgrounds and even well done player characters.
Pro Difficulty is balanced well
Once the payers party is complete they level at the same rate making for an even balance that evolves evenly the longer one plays.
Pro Tile based combat
Much like tradition dungeon crawlers the combat is tile based where in each move is one tile at a time, just as an enemies. This makes for a good way to plan ahead of time by counting how many moves it takes to get to certain point or how many hits to kill an enemy.
Pro Lots of interesting and varied puzzles
There are many elements in game that require much puzzle solving through the use of hidden switches, locked doors, etc.
Cons
Con Feels unfinished
During the game there are places on the map that are shown but that the player never gets to visit, which gives a feeling of parts of the game being unfinished.
Con Enemy AI can be easily exploited
Basically it is easier to run up to enemies hit them and then run away waiting for the cool down to expire than planning out tactics for each enemy.