Name
Mandaris' Quest
Author
Conquest Software
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Unknown
Rating
(1/5)
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Version
1.0
Requires MegaZeux 2.02 to 2.51 or newer.
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Mandaris' Quest
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An incomplete and unbelievably low-quality RPG. Battles are on separate boards and there are random (recurring) battles, but they use the default text box and, despite being 1-on-1... they use an "active time" gauge! A slow one. this game is best played on speed 2. You have no items, only magic. You can buy either health or magic, but you get all your health back after each battle so the health vendor is pretty much useless.

And not only speed 2 for the boring battles, but for the thousands of tiles you'll traverse in orthogonal lines through single-width passages and box-shaped rooms. Otherwise it takes forever to get across these hideous boards and onerous mazes. Yeah, there's even an invisible wall maze.

The game is incomplete. Many locations have no objects and sometimes you can get trapped. However if you do take the right path you can play for at least 15 minutes from the beginning.

Graphics are so bad that most things are labelled with text. In towns, on the overworld, in dungeons... and most of the walls are just solids. Very ugly. Very little char editing, which might have helped a bit in this case.

There's only a few songs: a terrible dungeon/overworld/general use song that's a repetitive beat with a horrible bass melody. This 15-second song plays through most of the game. Also there's a 15-second flute song which isn't quite as bad. These songs are original but they just are plain bad. Then there's the Chrono Trigger battle song, which plays during every battle. It's a professionally-composed piece which is really incongruous with the horrible original tracks here.

Ugh. Incomplete and very bad. I can't tell if it's a joke game! I have a terrible feeling that it's an honest effort though.