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A portion of a Vooks review...

If you’re into something that doesn’t demand a massive time sink from the player, nor devotion to learning it’s intricacies, this one is just for you. The story and combat alone are worth the price of admission. An unexpected and unfounded gem in the Wii’s library.

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Thanks to Mark and TenEightyFreeFall for the heads up!

A portion of a C3 review...

Many will look at Pandora’s Tower as being the weakest of the three Wii RPGs, with Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story easily making Ganbarion and Nintendo’s effort seem unworthy of attention. However, such a judgement would be unjust, since this Action RPG takes a totally different slant, offering an almost 3D Castlevania and Metroid feel to proceedings, mixing in a pleasant love story and a brilliantly smooth battle system that will widen its appeal. Pandora’s Tower certainly can stand proud amongst its fellow genre stablemates.

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A portion of a Nintendo Life review...

It’s a pity that the experience, most notably the action segments that take up a large part of the 12-15 hour adventure, are partially undermined by technical failings: as a result it’s questionable whether many will engage in multiple playthroughs in pursuit of happier endings. This title has much to recommend it, as long as you’re willing to look beyond some of its faults.

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Towards the end of a console's life you often see games that really push the hardware but rely on familiar ideas. Pandora's Tower is quite the opposite: it's a game full of technical foibles that nonetheless overcomes its visual weaknesses to offer something a little different. That's not to say tha...

A portion of an ONM review...

This is an average-to-good hack and slash that is unfortunately hobbled by some off-the-shelf RPG elements and a well-meaning - if ultimately tiresome - girlfriend management system. Pandora's Tower is well worth playing for its brilliant and inventive boss battles, arrestingly emotive moments of flesh-guzzling and for its stunning, amazingly varied scenery, but beware the tedious and generic hack-and-slash nature of the moments in between.

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A portion of a C3 review...

Many will look at Pandora’s Tower as being the weakest of the three Wii RPGs, with Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story easily making Ganbarion and Nintendo’s effort seem unworthy of attention. However, such a judgement would be unjust, since this Action RPG takes a totally different slant, offering an almost 3D Castlevania and Metroid feel to proceedings, mixing in a pleasant love story and a brilliantly smooth battle system that will widen its appeal. Pandora’s Tower certainly can stand proud amongst its fellow genre stablemates.

Full review here

A portion of a CVG review...

In Pandora's Tower we have a compelling resource management game that continually drives you to do better, think harder, play smarter. If this is to be the Wii's last hurrah, then at least it's not going out sitting on its backside.

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A portion of a Nintendo-Gamer review...

In Pandora’s Tower we have a compelling resource management game that continually drives you to do better, think harder, play smarter. If this is to be the Wii’s last hurrah, then at least it’s not going out sitting on its backside.

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Don't get too excited -- there's still no North American release of Pandora's Tower to speak of. But in the meantime you can still enjoy this (kind of gross) English trailer for the Japanese export, coming out April 13 on the Wii in Europe.

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