Game of the Day 2/3/2016: Paladin's Quest

[celerystalker]

This game brought up a lot of buried emotions.

I've never played or seem it before. The ONLY thing I know about this game is that I used to have two friends when I was younger who called this game Pa-lad-din's Quest. So much so that I still say it that way in my mind. I figured after hearing them pronounce the title a few times that they probably meant 'Paladin', not "Pa-lad-din".

Of all of my friends growing up, they were the most into RPGs. They were real RPG fiends; they even used to play through all of those Romance of The Three Kingdoms games that everyone else I knew who knew about them hated.


In any event, this topic has me thinking of them now. One of them -- the younger who I was closer to -- I lost touch with a few years ago after reconnecting with on facebook after close to a decade of lost contact. He was suffering from depression REALLY BAD, and gave me the most crushing explanation of how he felt about life before saying a lot of really morbid things and deleting his facebook account soon after. I really hope he's alright. In the months before that he'd explained to me that the OTHER friend -- his life long best friend, mind you -- is currently doing a life sentence with no possibility of parole for executing his ex-girlfriend with a bullet to the forehead (which his best friend had to give testimony of in court). Man, SO MANY of my friends from back home are broken now.

I know that when I eventually find this game I'll either get straight to playing it, or, it'll sit on the shelf, probably forever, unplayed, because of the memories it stirs up.

Wow, that's intense, but thanks so much for sharing the memory! I hope your friend is doing better somewhere... it's pretty crazy how sometimes these games become little signposts in our memories, and Ogre Battle becomes not just a cool SNES game, but it the summer walks I took with my wife about six months after we got married through our old neighborhood.

If you do pick this one up and play it, I hope there's more fun than sadness in it for you.

[Steven]

Emperor, I echo Celery. That was an intense story. Thanks for sharing.

I enjoyed PQ for what it was, although truth be told, I doubt I'll ever play through it again. It's one of those one and done RPGs for me. My favorite memory of it? When I bought it CIB back in 2010, it came with its original receipt! I love when stuff like that happens.







I've also beaten the sequel, Lennus II, and it's a far superior effort. Still not good enough to be considered one of the big boys, but it's more than competent and holds its own as a lesser known entry into the genre.

[kupomogli]

Thanks for the short description. I'm a huge RPG fan myself, have played a lot of fairly unknown RPGs that have been good games. I've always heard this one was a bad game so I wrote it off, but your explanation on the magic system makes me want to try it.