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Heroes of Ruin

n-Space · Jul 17, 2012

3DS

Teen

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War raged for over a hundred years until strong, powerful Lords emerged from the fighting to bring a fragile peace to the land. This peace is threatened when one of the Lords, Ataraxis, ruler of the city of Nexus, is taken ill by a deadly curse. A call is sent out, promising rewards beyond measure for anyone who finds a cure.

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Nintendo 3DS

Critic 6.8 (11 critics) · Gamer 8.6

7.5

Critic reviews

  • GameSpot

    Tom Mc Shea · Jul 21, 2012

    6.0
    Heroes of Ruin is a competent adventure that encompasses the key aspects of the genre but never goes beyond the expected. And through your initial playthrough takes roughly 15 hours, there aren't harder difficulty settings, so there's little incentive to go through again. Heroes of Ruin is an adequate hack-and-slash adventure for dungeon hunters on the go, but problems in many areas hold it from reaching its full potential.
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  • Nintendo Insider

    Alex Seedhouse · Jul 02, 2012

    9.0
    Heroes of Ruin is a handheld adventure certainly worth partaking in, and one that becomes ever the more enjoyable with friends alongside you. If this provides an early glimpse at the social interactive potential of Nintendo’s handheld, colour us excited indeed.
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  • IGN

    Chris Schilling · Jun 25, 2012

    7.0
    Daily and weekly objectives should, in theory, encourage players to stick with Heroes of Ruin, but even with the promise of rare items exclusively available to those who complete these tasks, it might not be enough for seasoned gamers who would prefer a more substantial challenge.
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  • ONM

    Matt Lees · Jun 15, 2012

    8.0
    Some slightly dodgy mechanics aside, this is a truly excellent dungeon crawler
  • CGMagazine

    Phil Brown · Jul 26, 2012

    5.0
    Ultimately, Heroes Of Ruin isn’t a disaster, just a missed opportunity. It’s nice to see this type of online action/RPG can exist on the 3DS, but a bummer about the crappy visuals, lack of challenge, and the inevitably miniscule online community. Enough works that it can be recommended to die hards of the genre, simply to give them something to play in the baron summer videogame months. Yet, even then experienced RPG nuts will waltz through this thing quickly.
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  • Gameplanet.com.au

    Adam Goodall · Jul 24, 2012

    6.0
    Heroes of Ruin would like to be the 3DS' Diablo, the 3DS' Gauntlet, the 3DS' Hunter: The Reckoning. Unfortunately, n-Space fails to endow the game with challenging gameplay or engrossing storytelling, apparently hoping that the solid multiplayer will draw audiences. In a marketplace where there's nothing new under the sun, we need a more interesting hook than that.

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