"Dirt Cheap Daily": Lazy Raiders Review:

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Lazy Raiders Review:

Lazy Raiders is a game that's all about doing one thing well. Instead of trying to include a story that stands out from the crowd, a striking visual style, or a variety of game modes, developer Sarbakan has focused on taking their unusual idea for an action-puzzle game and crafted it into something simple and fun.

The game tells the story of Dr. Diggabone, a treasure hunter on a quest to get rich with as little exertion as possible. Thankfully, no more than fifteen seconds of text are devoted to the story throughout the entire game, and rather than wasting your precious seconds, the first lines of the game serve to introduce you to the core gameplay. The story goes something like this: Dr. Diggabone is lazy, so lazy that he has developed an aversion to walking. Help him get rich by tilting and turning upside-down ancient treasure chambers so that gravity sends the doctor falling face first into his fortune.