Quest for Infamy: Demo

Quest for Glory VII: The Dark and Edgy Sequel

So after several weeks of Quest for Glory playing back and forth together with a love letter (to those kind of games that is) I had my hands on this demo for an anti-hero character. Compared to every other game this character is named. Mister William Roehm, a person wandering from town to town, leaving before things get to ugly for his taste. His latest adventure led him to escape a fair nobel ladies room before getting caught and getting into the town of Volksville. On the day of an execution no less of a thief named Markus van Houten (I assume it's a Simpson reference) voiced by non other than Paw Dugan, the person that introduced me to the Quest for Glory-series. How neat.

Boy, you don't look well Sneakyfeet

So if you break the law your dead. Gotcha! So in the meantime I've conversed with the local populace and some people at the pub have a proposition for me. They want me to find a monster just outside town, kill it and take its silver teeth's and melt them down. Now problem is I probably would have been better of as a brigand (the fighter option) or even the sorcerers option (since that is what I've preferred so far) instead of the rouge they gave me, but since this is a demo I can't complain. They lift me over the gate and I wanders the forest and what have we here? Something that looks like the behemoth from the Heroes of Might and Magic-games. And now I get my ass kicked. On what really can be described as the first enemy of the game. Maybe that one monster I met crossing a bridge should best have been avoided. So in 3 tries the best strategy was... just slash. I got lucky, with 9 hp left my enemy was down on 5 hp and tried escape giving me the final blow. 

Your an ugly mother******!

And now the most irritating moment in the game. So as per usual playing a rouge the best option is always be in stealth mode to level it up. Thing is as this is a demo it doesn't register. This gave me the impression I'm set, the skills are set. So how do I get back in town? Turns out the climbing skill isn't, it goes to 20 which is the max required skill to enter town again. So train and train until you get in. So what do I do with the teeth's? Well obviously you need to melt them and there is a smith that happens to be open at night. But he doesn't want to take them since there's something fishy about them. Now, I might not be a smith, but it's monster teeth? Who would care? That argument goes back to the... whatever they are in the pub. Since this is part adventure game it of course have some irritating puzzles. So how do I melt the teeth? Well, I'm not prepared for this so go back to the forest and get a helmet in a stump near a dead guy which I missed due to the stump disappearing into the background and I thought it just was the falling head of the dead guy that was important. Then put the teeth in the helmet. Get back to the smith. When he looks away, untie the horse and then smack it so it runs away and he follows, pick up his tongs, use them on the helmet and then melt them in the forge, put back the tongs and pick up the silver medal you made. I thought I was an anti-hero. Of course, they point out the smith would kill me in one hit, but still. You give the rouges(?) in the pub the medal and the demo is over. A small teaser cutscene tells me that the monster has some important owner, and they don't like the events unfolding before them so they will let a "friend" take care of me.

So that was the demo. Hard to say if I actually like this one. On one hand the mature nature of the game sets it a bit apart from the other games I've played, but since I only played an intro I can't say if I like it or not. Quality wise, I think Heroine's Quest was better with better mouth animation and the voices overall better (again, only played the intro). Maybe the designs of the character portraits looks better, but that is a small detail. Gameplay wise I can only see one difference between the different games and that is Infamy have a influence meter and since that one haven't come into play I can't say if it brings anything new to the table. I was thinking of getting it right away, especially since steam had a sale on it, but you know how it is. Windows only. And apparently version 2.0 is on the way so I guess I wait a bit longer. Of course you can get it directly from the developers website and you can actually get it on Mac as well, but full price and you know I might be a bit burnt out on the same type of games. Maybe should take a break and play some console games again. And yes, I know, I'm leaving two games hanging with Quest for Glory V and the full version of this game, but I might have an idea for fixing Dragon Fire. But we shall see.