CNET Editors' review
It helps to whistle while you work on this cute but maddeningly slow real-time strategy game. In Diggles: The Myth of Fenris, you supervise a band of industrious gnomes trying to forge a chain that can bind the aforementioned Fenris, one-time watchdog of the Norse god Odin. The gnomes generally go about their tasks on their own, but you can streamline their work, schedule their leisure time, and plan tunnels and underground halls. Gnomes that excel in their work build objects, become more efficient, and invent technologies that boost productivity. Given adequate food and sleep, they'll also couple up to produce children. The graphics and music are tastefully done, though the character models look a bit blocky by today's standards. The demo's lack of a save option is a more serious problem. The action moves at a glacially slow pace. We had to wait about 15 minutes just to build a few basic structures and dig some tunnels. Diggles would have tested anyone's patience when it was brand-new. Now that it's showing its age, we doubt most gamers will stick around long enough to mine all its treasures.
Publisher's Description
From Strategy First:
Godfather Odin has chosen the Diggles to set out on a long and burdensome expedition to the center of the earth where the hound of hell, Fenris, spreads terror. Fenris was once Odin's watchdog and ran away. Ever since he became aware of his growing power and strength he has been terrifying the underground world. Fenris must be disarmed and put on a chain. This task requires a very special chain, a chain that can only be forged by the Diggles...
Accomplishing this dangerous mission will take decades and involved many generations of dwarves. During their journey the dwarves have to pass through 4 different worlds and more than 100 different quests have to be solved. The player has to arrange a daily schedule for the dwarves by determining how much they work and what they do in their leisure time. The player has to teach them how to forge weapons, cook mushrooms, raise hamsters, produce tools and invent machines. Like people in real life, the dwarves also want to have some spare time in order to sleep, eat, play cards, go bowling or to a pub. Male and female Diggles can even fall in love with each other and thus conceive their offspring, which ensures the survival of their clan and can transmit their learned attributes to their dwarf children. The player's most important goal is to prepare the Diggles for the crucial fight with Fenris.
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"Great game...wish it was available for the Mac"
Version: Diggles: The Myth of Fenris demo
Pros
Great Game...I originally wrote the review below in August of 2002; thus, it is 7 years old. Regardless, this is still one of my all time favorite games.
Cons
Very buggy when I did the original review back in 2002; however, I imagine it works perfectly now on more powerful systems. It is also very difficult. When I played back in 2002, I lived on the user help forums getting hints on how to progress.
Summary
... Diggles has a lot of bugs and doesn't work well on all PC systems; otherwise, I would have rated this the best game of 2002. The bugs are possibly what's keeping this game from taking the US by storm.
... Unless you have a powerful PC or are willing to upgrade, this game may not be for you. I have a P4, 256MB Physical Memory and 962 Virtual Memory running on Win XP. The dialogue is choppy at best and my "show dialogue" option only works occassional. The original release of the game was in German so there are a few minor translation glitches which I don't mind but you might. All in all, the game runs fairly well on my system but you may want to visit the distributor's web site and read some of the forum comments. If you purchase the game, you'll end up becoming very familiar with the user forum as there is no published walkthru or UHS. ...
Now on to the actual game review: it is fabulous, funny, scary, suspensful, and extremely challenging. It's a mix of a bunch of different gaming types so it is hard to pigeonhole it into one category. Let's call it a combination RPG, Strategy, Simulation, Puzzle/Maze, Adventure, Fighting and more. The concept of mixing all these genres is amazing, gameplay bugs and all.
You control a growing clan of dwarves in search of the missing pieces to a magical dog lead. You have to find all the pieces in order to bring the dog/demon back under the control of his master. Finding the pieces to the lead requires digging underground through 4 worlds. Sounds simple but it's not. Case in point, I'm still on level one after 3 weeks of gameplay & much time spent in the user forum seeking hints and other assistance. Each world has several mini-quests. With the miniquests (some are required to advance and some are just for fun) and overall Diggle life management, gameplay is frustrating and thrilling.
If your PC can handle it, try this game. You'll love it!!! -
"Help cant make game work"
Version: Diggles: The Myth of Fenris demo
Pros
Its a fine game but can anyone tell me something about making it work on Vista? Downloaded the games full version and trying to make it work.It just wont stet after instalation... Can some one help?
Cons
Cant make download work.
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"Its very cute"
Version: Diggles: The Myth of Fenris demo
Pros
The game is very cute, nice graphics, the story line is pretty funny too. I bought the full version after I played the demo, and it was totally worth it. You build a little underground city, dig caves, build things like carpenter, log, stonemason that type of thing. Later on you can build things like a theater, school and brothel, which is pretty funny. The little diggles are really cute, they fall in love and have babies. Its an all around fun game.
Cons
I cant really think of much to say thats negative. After awhile it gets a little difficult for your dwarfs to get around, because the area becomes so big they dont have time to do their little jobs. But other than that its really great. I usually get very bored of a game after a couple of days of playing, but I have not gotten bored of this one yet.
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"NEONROY"
Version: Diggles: The Myth of Fenris demo
Pros
nice game and funny to
and there's this guy called godfather odin funny
Cons
its weak in gameplay and wel it's takes up a lot of time to install
