Since it is only $3.00 for the kindle version you won't feel even the tightest pinch in your wallet for a book the entire family will love. Your teenagers will willingly put down the remote to whatever game they have and pick this up instead. It's a wonderful read for those of you with kids, I promise they will jump right in bed if promised a chapter of The Keeper and The Rune Stone each night.
This is a book that you can read over and over and notice something new each time. Several things come to mind when thinking about this book. It doesn’t get scarier than the prologue, though, so if you’ve gotten through that with no trouble, the rest is smooth sailing. This is the kind of light, middle-grade fiction that will be torn through by hands eager to find out what happens next in the world of Eleanor and her brothers and sister.Ī note for parents: most of the novel is safely PG, but there are vampires (in this book they’re called noctivagi), and the bad-guy scenes are decently scary. There are negative elements within the world of magic, and now the Driscoll children are exposed to them – and must fight on the side of the good. Their indoctrination comes with the enhancement of the senses, though not actual superpowers – except for the reasonably fabulous ability to speak with animals.īut, of course, magic always comes with a price. More to the point, the children are quickly introduced to the world of magic. She begins her story with a reasonably awesome wish-fulfillment laundry list: the Driscoll family has moved into an enormous, beautiful mansion! And they get new computers! And bikes! And horses! Of course, they will have to do chores in order to maintain these last, because this is a family story. Fans of old school RPG’s will find a few aspects that will tickle their fancy, but unfortunately it just doesn’t get enough right to warrant a recommendation from me.The Keeper and the Rune Stone is a charming, family-centric novel that takes the sweet earnestness of The Boxcar Children and maps high fantasy elements onto it.Įleanor Driscoll, our narrator, is a precocious, empathetic thirteen-year-old with two brothers and a younger sister. The game just has too many problems and there isn’t much in terms of content for you to get to grips with and this means that any enjoyment you get is incredibly short-lived. At the end of the day I so wanted Runestone Keeper to be a success on the Xbox One, but in the end the only feeling I got was that of disappointment. They’ve done a very good job of capturing an old-school feel and when you combine the retro visuals and sound design together they do make things become more enjoyable from time to time. One of my favourite things about the game is the presentation side of the game, and thankfully no problems occur here.
The fun factor however dwindles somewhat when you realise that the enemies you face don’t have a decent amount of variety and facing the same enemies time and time again does make things become quite tedious. Without a doubt these problems take away from the good things the game has to offer, and that’s a shame because in terms of the strategy aspects that are present they are actually very good and I definitely had fun planning my next moves. These difficulties consist of unresponsive moments and at times the controls feel a little awkward and you can tell that the game was originally made for PC. It’s a shame because these aren’t the only problems the game suffers with because you will also have a few difficulties with the controls from time to time. Some of the technichal issues the game has makes you not want to carry on and one particular issue that affects your progress is potentially game-breaking, which is unforgivable. Speaking about the difficulty curve it will no doubt cause you quite a few problems and when you combine it with the technichal issues the game suffers witth you end up getting frustrated a great deal. I must admit that I was surprised by the amount of depth that the RPG elements had and if they had a gentler difficulty curve then the elements would’ve been even better. Don’t get me wrong they do get some things right and that’s definitely evident when it comes to the RPG mechanics that have been implemented. I was hoping that would change with the release of Runestone Keeper, but despite it being enjoyable at times it unfortunately suffered with quite a few problems. Unfortunately there hasn’t been an abundance of old-school RPG’s in recent year’s and the one’s that have been released haven’t been the best to say the least. Unfortunately there Old-school RPG games played a massive part in my childhood and I found them to be my go to games when I was younger. Old-school RPG games played a massive part in my childhood and I found them to be my go to games when I was younger.
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