Fun!!!
Lovin' this! the only thing is that it's a weee bit hard. or maybe i just suck? lol, anyways, great work!
Reviews for "Cardinal Quest"
Great!
Really nice and fun game. Lots of different things to encounter and its a blast to play. Keep up the good work.
unbalanced, ending is a bit of a letdown
Nice retro game.
The different characters don't seem balanced - wizard starting with fireball, then getting a couple more incapacitating spells to go with it and you're good for the entire game. Play as the fighter, and you are completely dependent on the rare healing potions since you will always take damage in melee combat. Maybe the addition of some ranged weapons would help? Or easy/medium/hard difficulties?
But the ending is a real letdown - the evil boss just laughs and runs away? Surely there could have been a more climatic way to end the game.
Very good game, but better with a saving system...
Very nicely made retro RPG, with a big variety of items, spells and monsters. Very hard, but still possible to win, since I finished it as the Thief, the hardest character to play. The key to victory when playing as any character is to use spells and items at the right moment and avoid rushing into fights headlessly, unless you are the Fighter with good equipments and facing a single foe.
I noticed two defaults into this game however : a total absence of saving system, what is annoying due to the time needed to reach the final room, and a merely useless money system, where I can earn money when collecting useless equipments, but this money is never used afterwards.
A few tips for beginners :
- Fully explore each floor before heading to the stairs, to collect enough equipments and gain enough battle experience to make sure you can survive the next rooms. Use the map if you want to check unvisited parts.
- If you get outnumbered, don't enter any unexplored room when fleeing or you have high risks to get circled by even more enemies and ensure you death.
- Magic Mirror spell is mostly useful for the Fighter, since the mirror image can only use standard attacks, what the Fighter excels for.
- Attacking while using Shadow Walk results on a backstab, that never misses and deals more damage. You can neglect you attack if you master this skill. However, if an enemy runs into you, the spell is dissolved.
- After a tough fight, don't hesitate to skip turns to regenerate your spells and be prepared if another fight occurs.
This is a good game, but the enemies are very strongers