City Quest

City Quest has a little more heart than at first look. Some writing prowess with very few dialog mistakes and dialog is not disjointed either. It all flows well. Nice to have 4 paths to play with achievements as well. It does have a lot of rude, crude humor so not child friendly. You can see my video review and gameplay footage. https://youtu.be/y2J-4_wpFGA

A long time ago point and click adventure were "it" in gaming. Text based games were going out and the genre became the true hardcore games, leave behind tetris and those boring puzzles, here you could control a real character!! Eventually two schools existed, Sierra (creators of the genre with Mystery House) and Lucas Arts (the student that overcame the master), Sierra was text heavy and allowed for a more free approach till were they became famous as "those games you could die from doing anything", Lucas was more flashy and direct but accounted for it with glorious IP. Eventually Lucas raised, with founding from George Lucas and the involvement of people like Stephen Spielberg they starting experimenting more, improved graphics and simplifying the genre to appeal to a wider audience. Sierra was consider to have stayed stale and out of touch with newer generations of gamers, but it provide a template for comedy adventures that Lucas would take inspiration from and the "Quest" series would stay historically as a very important step on the evolution of gaming, they were after all the firsts and even though Lucas became more "mainstream" you could see on early Lucas works they were pretty much copying Sierra´s formula (LOOM would be a perfect example). City Quest has no affiliation with the other "Quest" series beyond being a love letter. And what a love letter. The style of Sierra games is on full display, from the graphics to the absurb humor and even obviously the many many ways of dying. It´s not the only thing City Quest provides though, the full display of modern indie titles is here too like achievements, multiple endings, a semi open world... stuff that you couldn´t have on old sierra games and that are a niece addition. THis is a great title for nostalgic gamers, adventure humor fans in general and overall anyone who enjoys playing something to get a kick out of it. For the small price it has, City Quest is an absolute blast capable of providing far more time you would imagine with full fleshed out storylines and sidequests that provide a total of 8 different endings, each one more crazy than the other. I rate it 5 out of 5 delicious abandon infants