The Hero Of Kendrickstone

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About This Game Can a wanna-be hero like you rescue the city of Kendrickstone, held hostage by an evil wizard and his troop of black-clad soldiers? Face down fierce foes with spell, sword, or silver tongue. Outwit cunning rivals, cement your fledgling reputation, and maybe, just maybe, make enough money to pay your rent! “The Hero of Kendrickstone” is an epic 240,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Paul Wang, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Step into the shoes of a fledgling adventurer in a world full of magic and mystery! Master physical combat, magic, stealth, or diplomacy. Choose to befriend–or betray–sorcerers and knights, bandits and baronesses. Will you spend the last of your silver on a bed for the night, or potions for your next adventure? Will you spend your evenings studying ancient secrets, or prize-fighting for extra coin? Will you seek a mentor to help hone your skills, or strike out on your own? Will you prove to be a paragon of compassion, or a callous mercenary? Will you die forgotten and un-mourned, or will you become the Hero of Kendrickstone? 7aa9394dea Title: The Hero of KendrickstoneGenre: Indie, RPGDeveloper:Choice of GamesPublisher:Choice of GamesRelease Date: 13 Mar, 2015 The Hero Of Kendrickstone TL;DR at the bottom of review.I really enjoy the games produced over at Choice of Games. Choice of Robots was in fact one of my favourite games of last year. However, I can't recomend The Hero of Kendrickstone beacuse it lacks a fundamental feature of games like these:Choice and ConsenquenceIt seems that no matter which path I go down I will always end up in the same spot. Do you chose to save the nobel knight or the innocent family from an onslaught of bandits? Really doesn't matter, as they will only show up again at the end of the game and nothing else will change (except you might get a bit more gold, depending on who your mentor is). The only choice that affects your experience in any really big way is wether you're a Mage, Warrior, Rouge or Bard, and even then those only serve to lock you to a particular set of choices. In combat for example, a Warrior will never atempt to fight using magic, sneaky backstabs or talking the enemy to death. Instead, you'll have to opt for the melee option, as your character would get their\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665kicked if you were to go with any other option.For example, at the end of the game there is a choice that involves you going with a particular plan of action to stop a large threat. I was first excited for this and was curious to see the different effects it would have on the last portion of the game. But you know what the choices depended on? Whether you were Mage, Warrior, Rouge or Bard. They didn't even attempt to mask this, as the Royal Mage proposes the Mage plan, the Warrior the plan involving an all-out assault and ect. In fact, if you aren't a mage, one of the options is locked entirely away from you! Now, the solution might seem obvious: Multiclass! Pick two main stats to focus on (each class has its own stat) and become a Battlemage, or an Assasin Bard! Sadly, however, if you try to raise two stats at the same time, you will find you are lacking in your skills and that you aren't specialised, making it harder to pull off some of the skill checks later in the game. This same problem was experienced in Choice of The Deathless, another Choice of Game, but that game had witty writing and good humor, good characters and a world I was interested to explore. With The Hero of Kendrickstone, the character development is almost non-existent. All the characters seem to be one thing, and one thing only, with no flaws to creat deeper, more believable characters. In the end, I canno't recomend The Hero of Kendrickstone for these very reasons. The game lacks consenquence and your choices are, ironically, seeverly limited by the one big choice in the game, not to mention that the world in which you will be making these desicions (and its inhabitants) are all flat and boring. I tried for a long time to turn my opinion around on The Hero of Kendrickstone since I really, REALLY want to see more Chose Your Own Adventure games on Steam. But alas, I can't. The Hero of Kendrickstone is simply not worth your purchase. If you're looking for a good CYOA, have a go at Choice of Robots, Choice of The Deathless, The Hero Rise Trilogy (particulary the last two games in the trilogy) or even some of the Hosted (not directly sponsored) games on Choice of Games website. I'd strongly sugest you check out Life of a Mobster and Life of a Wizard if you want to look into the latter. TL;DR : Restricting Choices, Lack of Consenquences, Poor World and Characters, Don't Buy. I'm a huge fan of Choice of Games, but this story was a huge disappointment for me. I can somewhat forgive the generic medieval\/fantasy setting, but I can't get over how brief the experience was. What I had figured was the end of the 1st act turned out to be the end of the game. Hero of Kendrickstone isn't truly *bad* in and of itself, but it is priced way too high relative to the amount of content. For 5 dollars you can buy some incredible works of fiction that will keep you engrossed for tens of hours. This barely engaged me for three.. Great concept, great story. That said, I felt a little let down when I was able to beat the game within 3 hours. I enjoyed my time, I just felt like I wanted more from it. I felt like I just got into defining and enjoying who my character was when I reached the last chapter.Definitely worth $3 on sale, but not sure I woud pay full price for it. There is some replayability, but the general idea stays the same so the subsequent playthoughs are quicker since you don't have to read as much.. The first playthrough is amazing, it's just a straight up choose your own adventure book with added RPG elements to make it all the more enjoyable.If you play through it more than once, however you'll see how little your decisions matter. Whether you're a powerful mage or just a simple tavern bard your experience will be exactly the same.But who plays through games more than once, eh? Game is a little short though. Get it while it's on sale.. The story was short and interesting. I liked it but it had many features that seemed to never go anywhere and it doesnt branch at all in story except for a 2 selection side-tangent. I am very sorry to say that this particular choice of games does not have ay replay value, but was still fun to pkay the first few times, but not worth 5 bucks.. I'm a big fan of Choice of Games, and this might be my favorite game yet!It's a bit more unforgiving than the others (in the tradition of Fighting Fantasy) & doesn't have the usual romance elements, but I much enjoyed the story and the writing is top-notch.A word of advice: pick a strength & commit to it - it's not an adventure where you'll get far as a warrior with no weapons or a mage with no spells!. To put my experience of The Hero of Kendrickstone into a nutshell, (taking into account the price) it is a deceptively well-written, engaging, fantasy\/rpg book with decent characters and branching story line, but to which can be harsh at times if you make 'wrong moves' ( I say wrong moves, as they may not be bad decisions- as fantasy\/rpg book readers know all too well, haha).Not having played The Hero of Kendrickstone for very long ( only having completed one and a half playthroughs) , I think its enough to say that this game.... no, book?.. is a great buy for anyone who enjoys\/ would enjoy a fairly casual book where you can carve your own path\/ create your own story( and with significant diversity), with each different decision you make in your playthroughs (and there are are a pretty good amount of those to be made). Though there are some minor things to mention such as; - no way to re-read a page or change decisions made, save for restarting-some spelling errors -slightly short (though you can save your adventure at the end to maybe continue in the next possible book)Taking all things into consideration, I would definately recommend it.8.9\/10 :D. It's fun but a litte short. If you're into this type of game, I recommend.. Overall, I really enjoyed this game, (book?). The story was fun and engaging, and it felt like there were plenty of choices to be made. If you are a fan of Fantasy\/Adventure I highly recommend you give it a try. There were a couple of complaints I had though. One is that there were a number of typos and errors. Not game breaking, but annoying none the less. Another is that the choices you were given did not always match up well with what was in the text. Again, not huge, but annoying.My final complaint is not so much with this game in particular, but with Choice of games in general. There is no way to easily go back a page or remake a choice, You have to restart the entire story in order to reread anything or change any choice. It does not take too long to quickly remake your choices and catch up to where you left off, but doing so can be very tedious. A simple back button or save option would go a long way to making these games (Books?) more enjoyable for those of us who like to quickly explore different options and paths.