Nostalgic Game Review
Welcome to a new episode of the Nostalgic Game Review, where each month I muse over an old game I played long ago. Other than indulging my own nostalgia, this column also hopefully shed some lights on game design and reflect on how gaming technologies have evolved.
This week we are covering an interesting title that’s almost forgotten in my memory. It surfaced while I researched the RPG games last week. Without further ado:
Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
What is it?
It’s a fascinating role-playing, adventure game with a simplistic plot, humorous dialog, pleasant music, and decent graphics (for the time, and ran well on my 286 + monochrome monitor). The game, like other games in the era, featured a text parser requiring players to control the game by typing in specific actions and names. (yay, the good old days…)
The player can play the game in 3 different types (Fighter, Wizard, Thief) which resulted in 3 sligthtly different adventure with different challenges solvable by the character type’s special skills.
There are plenty of encounters with interesting people…
… and a bunch of easter eggs, references, silly jokes (see if you can catch the one below). You get to cross the desert with this friend:
… and there are intense combat!
The game comes with a nice manual and a pretty map (back in the 90’s it’s all nicely printed)
There’s also this ‘hero’s education booklet’, which is still accessible online on sierrahelp.com, was both visually pleasing and entertaining to read. I mean, where do one sign up for this amazing curriculum?
My impression
With great music, pretty game art (even in monochrome monitor!), humorous dialog and gameplay. What’s not to love? Take a look at the trailer (youtube video below) if I haven’t done the proper justice for this game.
That’s it for this episode of Nostalgic Game Review! Thank you for visiting! I appreciate any comments/feedback or if there’s a game you would like me to cover 🙂
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