Dark Quest 4 Review
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DARK QUEST 4
Dark Quest 4 Where Dungeons & Dragons meats a Tactical RPG. Enjoy hand-painted visuals and a fully voiced dungeon master in a story driven adventure with 10 unique heroes branching quest lines and a card based combat system.
The Good
- Beautiful Visuals
- Large Roster For different Paly styles
- Immersive Sound
The Not-So-Good
- The Difficulty
- Hero Management is hard
- Loadout Management is Slow
Story
Challenge the evil sorcerer’s puppet, Gulak. He commands a monstrous legion and like all evil beings is trying to take over the world. The story is told through the mechanism of scrolls at the start of every mission. These scrolls look great and ads slow world building to the story, you get to read these scrolls lots of times if you fail the missions.
Gameplay
In This turn based RPG you select 3 of 10 heroes to go into the dungeon on your mission. These heroes all have different attributes and compliment each other in different ways. Finding their synergy is hard as there's no obvious notes on who work well together, they are all well rounded characters in their own right but synergy is the key to success. Through the levels you encounter chests, these provide your in game currency to buy perks, potions, spells and items for your characters. There are 4 different shops to visit to pick up these items on your quest. Choose wisely as loading out your characters is important. Enemies in this game have very high logic. Certain enemies within encounters purposely seek out your weakest hero so make sure you deal with the enemies as efficiently as possible. Other enemies like to flank or surround your heroes, if they do this they cause double damage which get painful very quickly. They key thing is strategy and learning the 40 different enemies strengths and weakness'. Lastly character load out between levels is a bit tedious. 3 of the shops require you to move your gear between characters every battle if you forget to do this from the midpoint onwards you'll need to be lucky or extremely skilled to get through the levels.
Visuals, Design & Music
Visuals are a delight the hand painted models and maps are a delight to look at. Level design is strong here too the first few missions suck you in before starting to turn the heat up on difficulty. The music and sound effects are ok, the music is eerie and sets a tone but there's nothing spectacular here.
Performance
Playing this through on the Nintendo Switch 2 Dark Quest 4 runs really smoothly. I did have one random crash in the overworld other than that it's pretty flawless with good loading times and smooth gameplay.
Value
For £16.99 this game is over 30 hours worth of gameplay and really fun for any tactical RPG fan.
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Final Verdict
Dark Quest 4 is a fantastic game if you like tactical RPGS or enjoy the hero quest board game. The art style is beautiful to look at with smooth gameplay and a roster of different characters to learn this game really is worth checking out if you're a fan of this genre
For £16.99 this game really is worth picking up. Whilst it has it's niggles with loadouts that's a personal preference rather than a true issue with the game. if it's too steep at £16.99 I highly recommend adding it to the Wishlist.