Pocket Quest is a break from the usual overhead view rpg so many other games fall victim to. In fact, looking at the board game layout, and cute picture-based battles, it's a refreshing break. I haven't got my laptop with me, so I can't show screenshots, but well, the screenshots given already sum it up. It's a very cute game with good custom art that basically turns the quest into a board game.

So now that I'm done gushing over the art, let's talk about the gameplay. It's technically correct, there were no noticeable flaws from my playthrough of the game. Balance is good, tending slightly toward enemies. Death does not mean a game over (usually), but rather you are dropped back to start in the board, where you rest at the inn to recover (for a price, which rises each board, so it's important to budget money in case you die). If you run out of money and die, this is a gameover.

There are a few basic tile types: Inn (one per board), Shop (one per board), Boss (one per board, so far, anyway; btw, if you lose a boss fight it is a gameover, so make sure you've saved first), Monster, and Trap. There's others too, like a levelup tile, and a gambling tile. There are random variations on this concept too, like Speed Battles and trade monsters that sell things like rare jellies (which you will probably never afford, unless you grind on the same level for hours). In addition to the dice and board style, there is a demon who throughout your travel spins a roulette. I haven't hit all the options yet, but it seems to be Random Teleport (which drops you anywhere, including trapped or monster tiles), Bad Dice (roll 1 each time), Darkness (you can't see the board), Hot Tiles (deals damage each step), Closed Shop, and Lightning (strikes the demon, you really want this one, but it's hard to get). Whenever the last effect wears off, the demon shows up again to give you another effect.

My only gripe was that the game is apparently hard-graphics text in Italian, meaning I didn't fully understand the best item to buy, because I didn't understand the text. That said, it was playable enough for even an illiterate person to have some sense of what's going on, and fun enough that I played for hours, which very seldom do to any Rpgmaker games (the only ones I've been this into were Love and War, Forever's End, and Sunset at Imdahl I think it was called).