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DailyRadarUK kicked up a review of Sony’s RPG, Dark Cloud:

Once a level of fighting and collecting has been completed successfully, you return to the site of the village to partake in a little rebuilding work - it's here that Dark Cloud begins to show itself as something more than merely sword and sorcery adventuring. Early on you acquire a special artefact that gathers and stores energy or mana, the stuff that enables you to rebuild the village. Reconstruct the landscape from the overhead view then tap select and the camera zooms seamlessly to first person view, allowing you to examine your handiwork. Simply delicious.

At start, the game is a fun hack-and-slash game, but the thrill does not last long enough to keep the game interesting. The enemies will respawn indefinitely, and they often look exactly the same. As such, the game isn't about killing enemies to complete the level - it's about getting from one point to the next. This isn't as obvious as it would seem at the start of the game, and soon the throngs of look-alike enemies simply become tiresome.