Hero's Quest

Hero's Quest I: So you want to be a Hero?

First of all I just wanted to say this is one of my most favourite games. It was first released back in 1989 for DOS. It was then again released in the 90's in VGA.

The original version was a text based game, meaning that you could point and click to do things like move and interact with certain objects but for the remainder of things you had to type commands out. For example to cast a spell you would type "cast flamedart" which would cast the flame dart spell. The VGA version eliminated the text commands and replaced it with icons you could click with your mouse.

The game begins with you choosing what class you can be. You can choose from the Mighty Fighter, the Powerful Spell Caster or the Sneaky Thief. Each class has it's own perks and different ways of finishing the adventure. You can however make hybrid classes like a mage with thieving skills or a fighter that can cast spells etc. which brings me to the next part of the game, the skill selection screen where you can add more points to the existing skills chosen when you select a class or add some to skills that your class didn;t learn.

Once all this is completed you start the game in the town of Spielburg as an unknown adventurer, looking to become a famous hero. Along they way you meet a range of characters from the baron von spielburg and family, to wizards and a mysitcal dryad.

This is a great game. Many fun and complicated puzzles to solve and an array of fierce monsters to kill which makes for a very entertaining game and even though it is almost 20 years old, it is still today just as fun to play as it was when I first played it as a young boy in the 90's.

Stay tuned for part 2, Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire!