Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon

The Good
Following the same style as it's prequel with it's great graphics and atmosphere, it just gets even better by applying a consistent and interesting story that is revealed to the player throughout the game with greatly designed screens accompanied by the story or actions to be taken.

The places to visit are also more interesting, all taking place in an evil temple with it's deadly underground levels or suspicious priest chambers. Interesting riddles, fights that need special strategies, places that you can't rest, an NPC that steal your goods if you rest, a secret chamber to raise your dead and a lot of other neat surprises await you. It's simply more rich in story, fights, riddles and good ideas than any other title of the series. And it's definitely the biggest and most challenging of all.

The Bad
I can't find anything that I personally don't like. Maybe only the fact that sometimes you get lost (especially in levels with illusion or shifting walls) and there is no automap. But you tend to learn these places each time you play the game. The same happens with it's extreme difficulty. I have finished the game so many times that I have learned some very good strategies that levels like the skeleton chambers or the gargoyle dungeon (where you can't rest) do seem quite easy to me these days. The same happens with the later dungeons. And yet they still have exactly the right difficulty to become challenging in the good way. This only applies if you move with the arrows and have learned to apply side-stepping fighting a lot. One can really build up experience on winning in the Beholder series this way.

The Bottom Line
Definitelly the best dungeon crawling RPG game of all times. It's perfect, in terms of graphics, atmosphere, sounds and the right amount of challenge. Kinda hard for the beginner (and for this reason I would suggest you to try the prequel first before playing this) but it feels so great playing this again and again to get better and discover more strategies. EOB2 is really the best of the series.