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I picked up Dungeons and Dragons: Eye of the Beholder for the Game Boy Advance, a 2002 release from Infogrames and Pronto Games. It was part of that wave of attempts to bring complex PC-style RPGs to a handheld, a time when developers were still figuring out how to shrink those big worlds down for a small screen.

You control a party of adventurers from a first-person perspective, moving screen by screen through a sprawling dungeon. Your main goal is to investigate the evil plaguing Waterdeep, which means delving deep, fighting monsters, and solving environmental puzzles. Combat is turn-based; you attack with weapons or cast spells by selecting actions from a menu. You manage your party's health, spells, and equipment constantly, as the dungeons are large and resources are limited. The game moves at a deliberate pace, and it can be quite difficult, demanding careful planning in every corridor. It feels like a methodical, sometimes punishing, test of your ability to manage a team in tight, dark quarters.