Game modes | Basics Legend of Grimrock II Guide
Last update: 01 June 2016
The game, beside the additional mode of playing dungeons designed yourself (about which we will talk a bit later), offers a very complex and challenging single player campaign mode. It's simply a standard story mode, full of adventures and dangers awaiting you on every move. Before you start the game, you have to select three options that will influence your encounters with the Legend of Grimrock II game world a lot.
1. First, you need to select the most basic option, which is the level of difficulty. It influences only the parameters of your enemies, namely their actions speed, amount of damage that they deal and their level of aggressiveness. You can choose between easy, medium and hard. Much like in dozens of other games, every player describes the medium level as the most optimal and balanced. It's perfect for the start. It's important to mention that you cannot change your decision once you start the game.
2. The second decision is whether we want to play with a computer generated random team or to create the whole team by ourselves in a special panel designed for that. The choice depends on the player, but we of course recommend the second, more personalized option, which allows you to have bigger influence on the development of the heroes that you control. What's worth mentioning, there's an option of importing complete schematics of heroes into the game, but only if we've used this particular team for playing in the our own dungeons.
3. The third option - the so called Old School Mode - is connected to a very important element of the gameplay, which is the automatic map uncovering system. After activating this mode, which you cannot later reverse, the locations that we visit will not be saved on our map, which means that we loose a lot of comfort in terms of map orientation. For beginners, this will most certainly mean having troubles when walking through multiple tunnels and mazes of the dungeons designed by the developers. Players who still remember older RPG games will have the opportunity to once again used such techniques as drawing location maps on pieces of paper.
4. Ironman Mode, as this is the name of the next mode that we will talk about, introduces another difficulty to the game, namely that the you can only save the game at special places designed for that (Healing Crystals). To be honest, it is a slightly irritating mode, which doesn't allow one to stop the game until reaching a certain point in the campaign.
5. The last option is reserved only for masochists, as it allows you to use every Healing Crystal only once. If you like hardcore playing, switch "Single-use Crystals" option on.