Either way it was a terrible, terrible mistake. I wonder if they are doing this intentionally to provide satire on the genre or if someone signed this off as good quality. Honestly, it is so bad I wish they hadn’t bothered. Which brings me on to perhaps the worst part – the painfully badly acted dialogue. This isn’t typical in point-and-click games that employ puzzles and they are welcome to see and feel satisfying to solve. What sets these puzzles apart is that they aren’t necessarily based on random objects you might find. Quest for Infamy does puzzles with exceptional strength. The game world is incredibly detailed and the depth of recreating endless pixel art backdrops for your character to walk through and interact with is evident. The main character rarely seems to care about anything which begs the question why he bothers doing anything.ĭuring the game you can elect to become a brigand, a rogue or a mage which gives you access to different storylines, items, and abilities. There’s also a level of apathy which I found confusing. It’s a little disappointing then that the game almost forces you to be less infamous and more heroic as you go about the world. This can be amusing especially when the character breaks the fourth wall to interact back. If you do attempt such infamous acts, you will be chastised by the disembodied narrator. You can’t really hurt people, break things, or steal from the shops. After this initial incident the game takes a rather tame turn. You would think, with the title of the game, you could get up to all sorts of mischief and nefarious activities – but you would be mistaken. The premise of the game is simple enough, you play the part of Mister Roehm, an unsavoury gentleman running away from being caught with a Baron’s daughter and trying to make a name for himself. This gets tiresome after a while and in a game as well detailed as this one, it made playing more of a chore. The controls for movement which involves cycling through cursor options really isn’t suited to a controller and I often found myself using the wrong one and having to cycle through again to progress. I reviewed this point-and-click adventure on PS5, and the experience was less than desirable. Based upon the Quest for Glory series by Sierra Games this is a classic fantasy RPG-Action game that honestly, I wish I had played on PC. Quest for Infamy is a game I wanted to like a lot but sadly it falls short.
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