Review: Fantasy Quest
From Create Your Own Story
Title: Fantasy Quest
Author: Many people, but original author was FQ, though I am not 100% certain
Pages: 143
Preview: A mysterious magic spring lies in the middle of the forest! Many wizards have come here to replentish their mana in the spring's powerful waters. But because you are a warrior with no mana, the spring is nothing but a glorified fountian. Discouraged, you keep walking.
Review: Fantasy Quest is an interesting idea, but doesn't manage to pull it off as good as I would have hoped. This adventure plays like an RPG game, you can choose between a wizard or a warrior. Once you've chosen your class, you must go and level up your character so that you can enter dungeons. It's a very simple design, but the battling system isn't all that great, attack, defend, run. It would have been nice if you named these attacks, like 'fireball' or 'Heavenly Burst'. Enemies you encounter only take one 'attack' to kill too. After you've killed an enemy, especially in the Warrior section, choosing where to go next is basically just Go deeper (heads), Go deeper (tails). Once again, it would have been just that much better if you described the location.
This probably Fantasy Quests major flaw, description. Most pages are only two or three sentences, rarely going over a second line, which will explain the short length of the preview, I found that one or two sentences to be the longest page in the story. No joke, that's the longest one I found. If they put more effort into the description as they did with the status bar and pictures, this 'Quest' would seem much more fun.
Which leads me to this adventures biggest strength, it's pictures and status bar. I have to commend whoever done that bar, because it is wonderful, the images they used also fit extremely well with this fantasy world, from simple things like equipment, to monsters and the character, I especially liked the hydra picture.
Grammar wise, I didn't spot any sort of spelling error or flaws, although, it is only one line per page.
Overall, Fantasy Quest does do it's job as a RPG adventure, with it's amazingly well done status bar, to it's fantastic use of pictures, but it has flaws with it's story, if there is even one. If someone were to revamp the project and edit the story to make it more than just a sentence or two, this adventure will become much better.
