Despite some bugs and the linear gameplay Throne of Agony its a good game to have on your psp.
Throne of Agony have some pretty cool graphics with great art design, the storyline its presented in something like cartoons and this presentation works pretty good. There is some moments where the framerate its not very constant but in the majority of the game its pretty fluid and you'll only notice some frame drops ocasionaly. The game has a great variety of enviroments and this is just great cause you won't be getting sick of that dungeon crawling environment, in throne of agony you will be fighting a great variety of monsters in a dungeon and 10 min after you'll be in a snow plain or in a forest. Everything in the graphics look great in throne of agony, textures, characters, armors, weapons, monsters...
Graphics are really good but I give it a 9 cause of the inconstant framerates that ocasionaly happen.
Gameplay:
Lots of environments help the gameplay to get less repetitive but its still repetitive, but hey diablos gameplay was repetitive too right? and gamespot gave it a 9.6. So whats the problem in repetitive gameplay in this game? its an hack n' slash... go there do this quest slash a lot of monsters, go other place slash another bunch of monsters, get armor, weapons, potions, new skills, everything a game like this needs throne of agony have. Its true that the gameplay feels kind of repetitive but thats what this kind of game is about, also, you have many abilities to learn and master. Another thing that makes gameplay to be less repetitive its the followers, along your journey you'll find people who will acompany you, you can only summon one of them at a time but each one of them have their unique abilities, this is a pretty good idea but it works a little bad because of the bugs, the followers are really dumb, for example, when theres a trap on the floor they will just step on it. Another bug of the followers its when you have your fire elemental summoned he will shoot his fireballs on the walls, nonsense, but more nonsense than this its that the fireballs actualy do damage threw the walls, I don't think this was intentional...
Another bad thing about gameplay its because sometimes its harder to break a chest than to kill a Boss (the bosses in the game are not hard, they don't give much challenge like i wished).
The gameplay its cool and has some new good features but its a bit repetitive because diablo its 10 years older than throne of agony, but the gameplay its still very good even with its bugs it delivers a solid experience.
7.
Sound:
Throne of agony its a great soundtrack achieve, the soundtracks are awesome in this game, the sound effects are all there in the place they should be but its also repetitive like the gameplay, you will listen to sounds over and over again, and why? because the gameplay repeats itself over and over again, but still its not a bad thing, anyone who played diablo knows that we had to listen to the sword, axe or staff swinging miliones of times before the game finishes.
8.
Value:
Throne of agony its a game to last for many, many hours, and you will come back to the Elite mode wich is like a hard mode with better items, stronger monsters etc... The game will last you a long time and it also has a cooperative mode, unfortunetly the game does not feature any online options. Anyone who play the game will increase the hours of gameplay cause later in the game you will want to explore a lot due to something I won't tell here, so you can be surprised.
9.
Overall:
Throne of agony its a great adition to your PSP library, but when you do everything the game has to offer you'll feel like the game could have been better than it actualy is, anyway its a solid experience and a must have to all fans of the genre.
8.