N64 ROM: Quest 64 - Unknown

Nightroad 2008-02-06

A great RPG for the N64; however it is unlike your traditional RPGs. Quest 64 puts you in control of a young boy named Brian(Needs sources), as he searches for his father. Like your father, you are a spirit tamer, which is a special sort of mage that can commune and see spirits that normal people cannot. In Quest 64 you do not level up. Instead, you find spirits throughout the world ( a total of 98 can be found in the world ) and off the enemies you defeat. You have 4 major stats. Agility (more on this later), MP (determines how much spells you can cast), HP(Your life points; if it reaches 0 you die), and Defense (how much damage you can absorb from either physical or magical sources). If you visit your stats menu you will notice bars that fill up over time. Using magic spells causes your MP bar to fill, which increases your MP by 1 point every 100%. Taking damage increases your HP bar and Defense and avoiding attacks and walking about the world raises your Agility.

Your agility determines your "movement ring". Each time you enter battles (All battles are random, except special fights), you enter a "ring". Each character has a ring and can only move within that ring. Move outside of the arena and you escape from battle, but you can only move when it is your turn. Using the ring to your advantage, you can avoid enemy's physical attacks, which are usually the more devastating compared to their magical attacks.

All in all, quest64 lacks a good story, but the game play makes up for it and turns it into a decent cliche RPG.

Icegoten 2009-08-01

Man I remember when I rented this game for the first time when I was little I was in a battle with every 2 steps I took! I remember I had to go down a hill, talk to someone, and then go back up and it took me over 40 minutes just to do that and I was so mad I took the game back ASAP.



Now that Im older its time for me to play this game and Im sure I will enjoy it now that I understand games better.