In Blackstone, Madul (the Dark Lord) has spread darkness through the world of Zedan and with the help of his evil forces of the Underworld, plans to destroy the White Wizards and the Forces of Light. But at last there’s hope, a select few have been summoned by the White Wizards to do find the sacred Black Stones and save the world of Zedan from Maduls dark army. And so your adventure begins.

Once you have chosen your character you are transported to an area where you must fight your way through hordes of creature in hopes to find those !&%$@#* generators that these creatures are spawning from and destroy them. Along the way you collect keys to open treasure chests and bust clay pots to find gold, magic scrolls and food. After completing a level you get a continue credit, you may also spend the gold that you found on experience points and other goodies to help complete your task of finding the Blackstone.

The controls are pretty simple too, the A button does your attacks, B spits out magic, X sends out your projectile, and Y does the useful team attack. The white button displays your map; while the black button will help you cycle through your character’s information. Left trigger helps you dodge oncoming attacks and right trigger will charge up your power meter. As you keep playing you’ll come to find out the right trigger is your friend, because every time you shoot a projectile or dodge your power meter will slowly go down. So you need to keep one eye on the action and the other one on you power meter.

Xicat definitely put the replay value in this game. As you play the game you may die a couple of times before completing a level since your character is not up to par. So to do so, you will find yourself playing the same boards over and over again to build your character up and to get some more continues. Which in my opinion got a little tiresome.