No spiffy new swords with a +5 versus enemy swarms, no Armor of Flaming Infernal Death Daisies, no scrolls of Summon Self. Monsters will generally only drop a healing potion, a mana potion, or an element that can be used in alchemy. Sure, you'll still be mobbed by the same visually identical enemies who are enraged at you for intruding upon their lairs, and the monster generators (straight out of Gauntlet) will unrepentantly spit forth wave after wave of foes for you to smack down with relative ease, but there's not a lot of variety or innovation to keep it fresh.

One of the strongest resemblances that will immediately stand out is to the Diablo series, but the unfortunate truth is that, while the aforementioned dungeon crawlers tend to be varied and entertaining with interesting rewards and backgrounds that really keep the avid spelunker coming back to see what's on the next floor, Dungeon Explorer falls more than a little short of its spiritual predecessor in that regard. While there are the special attacks that can be gained by increasing one's job level (an inscrutable task, to be sure), this game borrows heavily from other titles in virtually every other way. It would be unfair to accuse this title of any kind of real originality. Dungeon Explorer: Warriors of Ancient Arts may be a mouthful of a title, but it's really a fairly straightforward hack-and-slash with just enough variation thrown in to keep it interesting and a decent way to burn off a few minutes of your life.

With HUD displays, character development branches, and 20 or more different endings, the average player sometimes longs for a return to the olden days, when games were comparatively simple. Every so often, the games of the modern day can seem a bit overwhelming.

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