Timequest

This game was the second title of Legend Entertainment and a departure from the previous Spellcasting 101. Where Spellcasting was lighthearted, relatively linear and fantasy based, the tendency of Timequest is to be more serious, intrincate and open ended from the start. Someone defined this game like "agressively" open ended, and it can be accurate. Just from the start you have to stop a villain that has changed events in human history across different places and times. You are free to go anywhere and anytime and the options are wide open. You can be in the same place but in different eras and the amount of combinations are expansive. This game tended to be relatively harder in puzzles, but the real difficulty was in the concept, the campy and combinatorial idea of the game. The game is more fair than it could be expected at first. Except in a couple of situations it is said that is hard to have a dead end or similar, something very common in old IF or adventure games. One curiosity here is that being a time travel game your control of time is relative, when you travel to a different era and then come back, you will be placed in the exact hour when you previously departed, like if it were some sort of temporal savegame. At first It was a bit rare to me considering you own a time machine. Due to the general idea complexity and the lack of serious glitches I consider this game a great design effort. Graphically and technically is high quality for the era. an excelent parser and a great use of the limited palette of colors An intrincate travel from the human history. IF at its best. Be ready to take a lot of notes.

Timequest is a classic open-world, puzzle-filled text adventure set across six different regions of the world and nine distinct time periods. With 50 different areas, each containing a handful of accessible locations, it is a very large game. It took me several play sessions over the course of a month to complete it. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, which evoked that old-school feel of working through puzzles and making meaningful progress each time I played. On the Zarfian Cruelty Scale, this game is classified as "nasty," meaning you can encounter unwinnable situations. However, the game always informs you when you’ve made a critical mistake, which makes for a surprisingly pleasant experience. I always had a clear sense of what I was supposed to achieve in each area and what to avoid. The puzzles are challenging, but they never felt unfair. As I explored more of the enormous world, I naturally solved more puzzles. Generally, the puzzles weren’t too hard, but they were clever enough to require creativity and thought. If I couldn’t solve a puzzle immediately, it was often because I hadn’t yet explored the areas necessary to solve it. Since there were always plenty of other tasks to focus on, I never felt stuck.

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