Game Review: Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness

Well, my "play over New Year's" schedule for these games certainly got thrown off. I was looking forward to playing Shadows of Darkness for literally months, because it's been my favorite of the Quest for Glory games since the first time I played it. It has a creepy horror-themed setting with riffs on Eastern European myths, it has vampires, it has the Fair Folk, it has a Lovecraftian monstrosity that sleeps outside reality whose awakening the hero is trying to prevent...what's not to like? But then I got more social, and then I got distracted by Stellaris, and Shadows of Darkness faded into the background, to rise occasionally as I was sitting in front of my computer and thinking, "You know...I have this game I was playing..." But now that, much like the rains isolated the country of Mordavia, we're all isolated in our homes due to the Illinois shelter-in-place order, I realized that I no longer had any excuse to avoid finishing it.

Okay, that was a stretch. Maybe I need a hero to get me my own Good Humor Bar.

I've had that happen to me.

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