I was a huge fan of KUF: The Crusaders and KUF: Heroes on the original Xbox, and was excited when this game was announced. On playing this game, however, my reaction was far from what I expected. To put it simply this game isn’t nearly as good as The Crusaders or Heroes, partly because they changed the gameplay.
Gameplay
This game focuses less on the strategy and focuses more on being a hack and slash rpg. You can equip two weapons at a time and have an attack button for each weapon. This causes the game to become a button masher. While fun at first, this quickly gets old. You can gain spells and special abilities, but none of them are all that useful or fun. All in all the gameplay is very repetitious and mediocre.
Graphics
The game looks pretty nice, as well as the monsters. However it isn’t like its anything spectacular to look at.
Sound
The soundtrack isn’t as varied as the series previous installments. It also isn’t as memorable. Voice acting is flat out bad!
Story
Is there one?
There is but it is poorly told. The Story is told by dreaming, which is entirely optional. It sounds like an interesting way to tell a story, however it simply doesn’t work very well. You could go through the entire game and not hear any of the story if you didn’t want to.
In the end Circle of Doom is kind of a disappointment and isn’t recommendable, even to the fans of the series.