Nintendo 64

Quest 64

Un jeu magnifique à tous points de vue, jouable de 7 à 77 ans ! Un véritable antidote à la grisaille quotidienne. Après avoir joué à HOLY MAGIC CENTURY, vous vous sentirez reposés et détendus ! Si si ! Essayez, vous verrez !

I think die-hard RPG'ers will not be satisfied with the ease of this game and will rip through it. If you have never played an RPG before and have felt a bit intimidated by the other games that are out there, this is your chance. The easy interface and simplistic gameplay should get you going in no time. This game is a great stepping stone before you start into the complicated games. Like I said before, I really enjoyed this game for the most part, even though I found some things to be a bit lacking, but I am also not a big RPG guy. I would still check it out just to get your fix.

Quest 64 promised to be the first genuine RPG for the N64. And in a sense it succeeds at least in placing itself squarely in the genre. Beyond that, well... it's not a bad game, it just comes up a little short of our expectations. Its primary flaw is oversimplicity on all fronts. In an era when the best RPGs offer complex plotlines with flashbacks and time skips, betrayals and new alliances, Quest 64's plot seems skeletal and obvious. Though rendered in 3D, gameplay adheres to a very linear model that takes little advantage of 3D's inherent "explorability." Quest 64 falls short of both Mario 64's expansive 3D play and Final Fantasy VII's compelling twists and turns.

Bored with battle? Make cubist collages like a pixel Picasso. And speaking of Picasso, the palette of monsters suggests some pretty exuberant chemical investigation back at THQ headquarters. (Hmmmmm......T....H.... "Q"? Suspicious.) Brian battles vampire bunnies, stacks of poop with eyeballs on top, dragons with Jay Leno chins, boxing kangaroos, tiny suns that wear mini-skirts and carry umbrellas, Catwoman dominatrixes with whips, fish that ride pogosticks that look like pencils, slugs that spew waterfalls out of their asses, and many, many more. Seeing a new monster for the first time is almost a guaranteed death because you'll be laughing too hard to defend yourself. Happy Questing!

Hardcore RPG'ers will get bored quickly with Quest 64, but other gamers may appreciate its simplicity. Some of the backgrounds look spectacular and the final level is literally out of this world. Most of the time, however, I found that the most challenging aspect of the game was trying to master the tedium of its weak and repetitive gameplay.

I really didn't enjoy this at all. For me to enjoy an RPG I have to at least A) like the story and B) care whether or not the character makes it through. Well...the story is your usual clap-trap, and frankly I couldn't care less whether Brian and his stupid haircut make it to save his Dad or not. The combat system is simple and unspectacular, the graphics are repeated endlessly and the bad guys look frequently ridiculous. Wait for Zelda.