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 Download For Pc [full Version] 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 a great game... for a single play through. You get everything right and win the boss fight and boom! game over. You try and play again as someone new and guess what, 90% of the game is the exact same as before. The only difference is certain options which were greyed out the first time through are open now, and your initial back story is different.I was excited for this story, thinking there were be branching story arcs and various routes to the various ends, but its basically a nice little rail that you cruise along till you beat the bag guy. You just alter the appearance of the cart your riding in.A little more variety would have left me replaying this story many times and trying all the various heroes and back stories.. but as it is, *yawn* once was enough.. 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.. It's simple, uninspired, and just plain short. Far below the high bar set by other Choice of Games.. Unimpressed. I expected more, much more. I played the game a few times, and found a shocking lack of consequences and evil alternative endings. I'm sure there's some out there, but with an 8% compassion rate, there should be some special options to side with the evil wizard or kill the duke.Far too short, and frankly it's an embarrassing piece of work when compared to Choice of Robots. Hardly any customization, cliche's left & right, a few errors here and there. Nothing groundbreaking.Wana ignore my rant? Skip to the bottom! :D***Spoilers***It also bothered be a lot that the main antagonist is mindlessly evil, with evil brainwashed drone bandits. I thought that he would actually take over the city - be interesting - and you'd have an epic, character-defining, individualized story that a few other choose-your own-adventure games out there offer. Instead, you get a quest from every main character (Which are hardly interesting, and you can'teven have a romance with any of them either) fight the bad guy, and Epilogue. Way too short!It really hurts to see how basic this is, and how unnatural a lot of it feels. Why the living f*** would a knight implore the help of a wizards apprentice - that totally snubbed her by the by - to kill a vicious bear-wolvirene-badge-snake thing?The game assumes I want to be an adventurer, and make a name for myself, which in a lot of cases, isn't true! It's very restrictive.The world is something new-ish, I'll give them that, though riddled with cliches and hardly explored. You won't go more than a few miles away from the main city place, so if you're looking for an epic Dany from ASoIaF\/GoT moving across the lands of Essos, building an army and reclaiming her throne, or a Frodo Baggins moving across Middle Earth, you best go somewhere else.***************For 5 f***ing dollars, this game is not worth the buy. If it were 2 dollars, or maybe even 3, I would be alright, BUT 5?! I could probably buy a DVD of Lord of the Rings if I'm lucky. Choice of games really botched it here, and just jumped on the medieval bandwagon that blew up after Game of Thrones.I did learn what a retinue was, I was always curious about what that meant, but never looked it up.Final verdict WITH full price: 3\/10 not worth itFinal verdict with reduced price: 4\/10 below average, but if you got time to kill, might as well, but don't plan to walk away feeling like you've gained something.I CRIED after Choice of Robots, okay? CRIED. And I'm not even a big fan of science fiction! You want to know WHY I cried? I felt attached to the character! I felt like it really was me, and I felt like I was really growing and making mistakes! You won't get anything like that out of this, no building a company then seeing it crumble and selling it because you're an idiot, or becoming a tyrant because you can, or even feeling the existential from dying as you hold the hand of your loved one. None of that here; I felt like I was controlling a drone.Go out and play D&D with some frineds, at least then you might get something out of it.. I really enjoyed this, though it was a tad shorter than I would have liked. That being said, there is an option to save your progress at the end of this, so I'm guessing another chapter to this will be released eventually.. 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.. I've spent more on real books and I think I like this more. That said, it clocks in a much shorter than I had hoped and lacks any features that could have made it better. Over all I liked it okay, but I can't recommend The Hero of Kendrickstone.. 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!. The paths are very inflexible - you basically have to go 100% with a certain skillset in order to win - and the endings are not very different from each other.EDIT - I should also clarify, I much preferred other Choice of Games games where you could win with only going 80% into a path. Also, the author's other game, Mecha Ace, seemed like it was actually pretty hard to die before the ending.
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