The Hero of Kendrickstone

This is a very well crafted Interactive novel. I'm looking fowrward to a sequel.

A fairly decent text-adventure, will only take a couple of hours to play at most. Fairly linear story on the whole, but a nice way to spend an hour or two.

I've played this a few times now. It's really an enjoyable adventure that has a lot to offer everyone. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoy's choice adventures.

Very short, ended when I hadn't expected. But this kinda allows you to actually do multiple replays and see how things turn out differently depending on your decisions. Writing is decent for the genre, story is a fantasy cliché though I had fun playing it, so yeah.

This game has alot of things going for it, but it never really takes off. You create your background, then head for the city of Kendrickstone. Once you get to Kendrickstone you can settle on a career path. You'll go on a few quests, which will get you some really important rewards if you can complete them. Eventually you're tasked with the main quest to save the city. For me the best part of the game was just living in the city and building up your life. A period of time passes, you decide how you're going to spend your time and money. Unfortunately there isn't any interesting side quests you can go on. Two big problems I had: 1-Your choices don't tell you which skills are required. So you'll pick something you think is within your skillset and instead you just fail epically. 2-The story just isn't that interesting. Final verdict: -The replay value is good, but the story just isn't interesting enough. If you want to give this one a shot, put it near the bottom of your list or wait for it to go on sale.

as always from this company a VERY good read. the only sad thing for me is, no romance from what i have found ;(

Tolles Game! Erinnert mich an die alten Pen&Paper Tage. Englischkenntnisse sind Voraussetzung wobei ich mit meinem Schulenglisch ganz gut zurecht kam, ein paar Begriffe musste ich Nachschlagen aber ansonsten ging es ziemlich gut voran. Lasst euch von den 4 Stunden Spielzeit nicht täuschen, habe es, wie andere Game of Choices Produkte, in ruhe Offline gespielt und bereits mehrmals durch. Kaufempfehlung an alle die auf Grafik und Sound verzichten und sich einzig und alleine von einer guten Story und Entscheidungsmöglichkeiten mitreissen lassen können.

The story is very basic. The paths are simple and follow your stats of might magic stealth and speech to put it simply. Aside from being incredibly simple with no plot twist or weighty decisions it also overly masculinizes women, while minor compared to the problem of it being incredibly basic it's a poor choice that takes away rather than adds quality to the story. If you just want something to pass the time with this may be a purchase for you, but if you have limited time and are looking for a good adventure I'd pass on this one.

This was the first Choice of Games title I played, so that perhaps makes me a bit biased towards it. Regardless, though, here is my review of it. Story wise, it's pretty simple. The description really tells you all you need to know - You're a start-up hero in a fantasy world, trying to save a city from an Evil Wizard (TM). The end game is pretty much the same no matter what path you take - Congratulations! You saved the city from the Evil Wizard (TM) and are lauded as a true Hero of Kendrickstone! Not much of a spoiler there, really. In spite of the simplicity, though, it does scratch the "fantasy hero/D&D" itch that no other CoG titles have managed to scratch thus far. The supporting cast, while as cliche as the rest of the game, still manage to be charming in their fantasy tropishness. Mechanically, it's still not the best of the CoG games, either. Only two morality stats, compared to the sometimes five other CoG games have. The attribute system is something only a few other CoG titles can claim to have, but it is still perhaps the simplest of these attribute systems. However, it is unique in that it has a pretty detailed equipment and economy system, where you can spend money to buy permanent equipment, to gain new abilities and skills (Some of which are necessary for certain ways of completing quests), to gain temporary morale boosts which increase all of your attributes for the following quest, or to gain permanent attribute boosts. Unlike some other CoG games where cash is just sort of a show-stat so that you can delight in how much money your character has (A Wise Use of Time comes to mind), The Hero of Kendrickstone actually requires careful management of your bank account - Do you buy that book to learn wilderness tracking techniques, or do you splurge on a nice room at the inn to keep your character chipper and ready to fight the wild beasts? Do you pay the crime lord's protection fee, reducing the amount of money you have to spend on other things, or do you defy him and wake up with a knife in your bedpost, hurting your morale for the next mission? tl;dr: Simple but charming plot, with unique equipment and currency mechanics. 8/10

Everyone in this story really, really wants you to be an adventurer and hero, despite provding evidence to the contrary in spades. Bless the dutiful idiots and their misplaced ambitions