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Who knew cultural gaps could be so fun?
pianotm- 02/21/2016 03:24 AM
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Name: Bro Quest
Developer: Volrath
Story: Made for the Golden Age of Gam Mak, but failed to make the deadline. Okay, seriously, this game is a major fresh breath after the last two disasters I played. It's a modern retelling of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". You play C. J., an idiot by any century's standards. C. J. puts on a suit of armor at a renaissance festival and is transported to ancient Breton. C. J.'s sudden appearance seems to confirm a prophecy. He is the hero of legend, and it's up to him to save Princess Kardinal from the evil dragon. Of course, everyone notices that he's an idiot and decide to send a competent warrior named Duane along to help him. Meeting Duane would be a startling crash course in medieval history considering...nah. I'll let the player find out. Suffice it to say, C. J., being staggering drunk, stubbornly refuses to believe this anything but a renfest game, and even being in life or death battles fail to convince him. He's having a blast.
Writing: This is how comedy is supposed to be done. Instead of forced jokes, we have a situation where a person who could really exist is thrust in a situation and must interpret it through his drunken lenses. The comedy comes naturally. Nobody is actually telling jokes, but the player is still laughing.
Gameplay: Uses the standard combat system wonderfully. Duane is valiant warrior, skilled with a spear...and C. J. is an idiot who likes to talk about bacon and take selfies with his camera phone. And that totally works. C. J.'s inane blathering combined with the capabilities of his cellphone are more than sufficient to distract the enemies while Duane bashes them. All encounters are touch, and most are mandatory. Warning: this game is ratcheted up to almost-but-not-quite-Nintendo-hard. Some experience at playing difficult RPGs is required.
Graphics: RTP, but this was for the Golden Age of Gam Mak. RTP was required.
RTP has ideal castle tiles for a Dark Ages castle, having the appearance of the Roman style.
Music: I know this is all RTP, but some of these don't sound familiar at all.
Conclusion: Well worth your time. This short subject is an excellent example of what a good game should be.
Absolutely Pointless Musing: This is just idle speculation. I wonder what the time period would be. Breton is modern day Brittany, and is originally a British colony. All of the names are decidedly French, but there doesn't seem to be any British influence in any of the names, the exception being Brandon, though he seems that he could be a foreigner. The British influence over this region is noticeable to this day, but in ancient times, it would have been stronger. Twain's novel is based on Malory's Morte d'Arthur, so there is something of a mashup of time periods, Malory's story being filled with medieval pageantry while King Arthur is thought to have been a Dark Ages king. So indeed, if Arthur was real, and this story takes place in Arthur's time, then Breton would be a relatively new colony and the people here would still speak some variety of the language of Briton. Of course, there definitely seemed to be an effort to be historically accurate with this game, so I suppose if it went all the way back to the Dark Ages, C. J. wouldn't have been able to communicate with them at all since the British and the French spoke absolutely no version of English at all (English didn't make it to the British Isles until the Angles and Saxons invaded, and even that English would have been unrecognizable to modern English speakers.). I'm babbling.
Developer: Volrath
Story: Made for the Golden Age of Gam Mak, but failed to make the deadline. Okay, seriously, this game is a major fresh breath after the last two disasters I played. It's a modern retelling of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". You play C. J., an idiot by any century's standards. C. J. puts on a suit of armor at a renaissance festival and is transported to ancient Breton. C. J.'s sudden appearance seems to confirm a prophecy. He is the hero of legend, and it's up to him to save Princess Kardinal from the evil dragon. Of course, everyone notices that he's an idiot and decide to send a competent warrior named Duane along to help him. Meeting Duane would be a startling crash course in medieval history considering...nah. I'll let the player find out. Suffice it to say, C. J., being staggering drunk, stubbornly refuses to believe this anything but a renfest game, and even being in life or death battles fail to convince him. He's having a blast.
Writing: This is how comedy is supposed to be done. Instead of forced jokes, we have a situation where a person who could really exist is thrust in a situation and must interpret it through his drunken lenses. The comedy comes naturally. Nobody is actually telling jokes, but the player is still laughing.
Gameplay: Uses the standard combat system wonderfully. Duane is valiant warrior, skilled with a spear...and C. J. is an idiot who likes to talk about bacon and take selfies with his camera phone. And that totally works. C. J.'s inane blathering combined with the capabilities of his cellphone are more than sufficient to distract the enemies while Duane bashes them. All encounters are touch, and most are mandatory. Warning: this game is ratcheted up to almost-but-not-quite-Nintendo-hard. Some experience at playing difficult RPGs is required.
Graphics: RTP, but this was for the Golden Age of Gam Mak. RTP was required.
Music: I know this is all RTP, but some of these don't sound familiar at all.
Conclusion: Well worth your time. This short subject is an excellent example of what a good game should be.
Absolutely Pointless Musing: This is just idle speculation. I wonder what the time period would be. Breton is modern day Brittany, and is originally a British colony. All of the names are decidedly French, but there doesn't seem to be any British influence in any of the names, the exception being Brandon, though he seems that he could be a foreigner. The British influence over this region is noticeable to this day, but in ancient times, it would have been stronger. Twain's novel is based on Malory's Morte d'Arthur, so there is something of a mashup of time periods, Malory's story being filled with medieval pageantry while King Arthur is thought to have been a Dark Ages king. So indeed, if Arthur was real, and this story takes place in Arthur's time, then Breton would be a relatively new colony and the people here would still speak some variety of the language of Briton. Of course, there definitely seemed to be an effort to be historically accurate with this game, so I suppose if it went all the way back to the Dark Ages, C. J. wouldn't have been able to communicate with them at all since the British and the French spoke absolutely no version of English at all (English didn't make it to the British Isles until the Angles and Saxons invaded, and even that English would have been unrecognizable to modern English speakers.). I'm babbling.
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CloseHey, thanks for the review! This is great stuff.
Breton was actually named for Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, which is one of my favorite places. For what it's worth, I actually didn't see it as straight time travel within the same world but CJ being transported to another world altogether. Glad you had a good time with it!
Breton was actually named for Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, which is one of my favorite places. For what it's worth, I actually didn't see it as straight time travel within the same world but CJ being transported to another world altogether. Glad you had a good time with it!
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Breton was actually named for Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, which is one of my favorite places.
I actually read about that place recently...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/18/news/donald-trump-canada-cape-breton/
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Yes! I saw that too and having vacationed there twice, I encourage all of my fellow potential refugees to think it over carefully.
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