Dark Quest

Name: Dark Quest

Developer: GeneralGhandi

Story: You wake up from a strange dream and find yourself in a strange people with two other people in the exact same situation as you. You go outside to find a woman who implores you to kill a knight. Why should you kill him? Because he's evil! Okay. Seems like as good a reason as any.



Gameplay: This game is so RTP, the RTP is laughing at it. The battles are absolutely from the basic database. The good news is that the developer actually balanced them so that the game is a legitimate challenge and not boring. The gameplay is actually very well crafted. It's an excellent demonstration of the basic system. It's definitely a good game. It simply looks and plays like any other basic RM game. There aren't a whole lot of things to do for Vale or Grant except to attack. Vale's a healer, but his healing is very weak. Healing items and healing skills are substantial enough to get you through the game. Maggie is a mage, so she has magic attacks. There is a dungeon with two touch encounters. These serve to introduce you to combat. This game could reasonably be called a tech demo for RPG Maker 2003.

Graphics: Straight RTP. There are a few edits and a couple of custom enemies, but that's it. The mapping is mostly fairly ordinary.



There are a few oddities in the mapping but mostly, it's plain and unmemorable. This really has the look and feel of a Dragon Warrior clone.

Music: Unfortunately, it's not all RTP. For the most part, it is, but the two boss battles have the most obnoxious, unharmonious, head-banging, brain melting, death metal you've ever heard. It sounds like the musicians (and I use the term loosely) were hitting their guitars with hammers. I took my headphones off and set them on the other side of the desk, and it was still too loud, and the music never developed a melody. It's the most uninteresting, obnoxious noise you've ever heard. I forced myself to listen to it to see if it would progress. No. It was just same few chords over and over again. Turn the sound down on this one.



Conclusion: Not a bad little game. It's really short. 15-30 minutes. It's interesting. Can I recommend it? Well, there's countless other games that basically offer the same thing. I would say that the game was well executed and if you feel like looking at it, it probably won't fall short of your basic expectations.