Long ago in a land of five Kingdoms an amulet, known as the Hand of Mobus, was shattered into five pieces and hidden throughout the Far Reaches. Dark Magic spread throughout the land and the evil wizard Torlok began his reign of terror.
Now the fate of the Five Kingdoms rests upon Lathan, the last of the Argent Kings. To restore freedom he must first recover the broken pieces of the amulet, but his journey is filled with many challenges. Danger and evil forces await as you guide Lathan on his quest of power and magic.
Age requirements: ESRB Teen (Mild Cartoon Violence)
Minimum system requirements: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard.
Like Dragon's Lair - Only With Less Action and More Suck
(by
imbarkus)
Seriously this curio is only for the hardcore. It's an animated "video game" much like Dragon's Lair, originally entitles "Thayer's Quest." I remember seeing the thing running in a Tilt back in the day, in a cabinet very much like a Neo-Geo--designed with misplaced optimism for future "titles" to be added into this laser-disk cabinet system. Thayer's... full review Quest was unique in that you had to acquire items through your actions to best certain obstacles, apparently, though I never succeeded in doing so. To evidence the fact that the game was, in fact, designed to be progressed through, it saved your progress with some sort of code or something. Like a Play-Choice, you paid quarters for time to play it, which made watching slow, often repeated animated cutscenes as much fun as swallowing your quarters whole. There was no joystick, only a series of context sensitive buttons. It was a mess, and it was broken and unplayable within a week or two. Never got anywhere with it.
Things fare a little better on the PC version (I actually have the Mac) for control and game-saving, but the game remains a historical curiosity--a wanna-be Dragon's Lair. The animation is really awful, the voices are intolerable, and at least the Mac version adds enough compression distortion to each to make the experience somehow worse. There is no Don Bluth artwork to admire here. As I said, this is a curio. For weirdos like me, apparently. Of course, here you are, reading my thoughts on the thing. Buy it if you must. I did. Maybe write me a strategy guide?
imbarkus)