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Game Review: Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
2018-Dec-31, Monday 19:30
Continuing my annual playthrough of a Quest for Glory game, now with the worst one in the series.
Like I wrote in my review of Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire, most of my playthroughs of the series jumped straight from Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero to III. I didn't have all the other games to compare it to, and since a Quest for Glory game is still head and shoulders above most other adventure games, I loved it and played it through multiple times as every class, the same way that I did with every Quest for Glory game. But coming back to it as an adult, with a better understanding of game design and a lot more experience playing video games under my belt, I can see all the shortcomings. Quest for Glory III was never supposed to be part of the original timeline, and it was rushed, and both of these are obvious. It's still a good game, but it suffers greatly from its constraints.
You're not in Spielburg anymore.
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Like I wrote in my review of Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire, most of my playthroughs of the series jumped straight from Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero to III. I didn't have all the other games to compare it to, and since a Quest for Glory game is still head and shoulders above most other adventure games, I loved it and played it through multiple times as every class, the same way that I did with every Quest for Glory game. But coming back to it as an adult, with a better understanding of game design and a lot more experience playing video games under my belt, I can see all the shortcomings. Quest for Glory III was never supposed to be part of the original timeline, and it was rushed, and both of these are obvious. It's still a good game, but it suffers greatly from its constraints.
You're not in Spielburg anymore.
( Read more... )
