Once again, The Isle of 8-Bit Treasures took up all my gaming time over the weekend. I didn’t mean to play it exclusively, but I just kept on starting it up. It’s really very good indeed, despite the horrible bug that seems to freeze the game in custom dungeons. It’s normally, but not always, when you use an escape item. Very, very annoying, yet I keep coming back.


I actually made some progress over the weekend. I managed to finish another couple of main dungeons and even found another rare C item, which I used on my Raijin Blade to add a fire attack. I spent a lot of time trying to finish the Unsolved Child Murder dungeon, but didn’t quite manage it. It’s only four floors deep, but the last one’s full of nasty monsters – and there’s always one monster-filled room on level two that can kill me if I’m careless or unlucky. (If the stairs down from level one take you straight to that room, it’s pretty much game over right there.)

On the plus side, the Unsolved Child Murder dungeon doesn’t include any annoying little slime monsters. The green ones are fine, the yellow ones a pain until you level up, but it’s the blue ones that are the real buggers. They often split in two when you hit them, so if you get surrounded in an open area, death can come quickly.

Great game, but I really can’t recommended it in good conscience until they fix the freeze bug in custom dungeons. Unless it’s just me experiencing that? Has anyone else reading this seen anything similar?