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[Virtz]

Here's a neat thing I've recently come across - a Quest for Glory like Adventure game with RPG elements, set in Norse mythology. To anyone unfamiliar with the QfG series, that means an Adventure game with upgradeable stats, multiple solutions to puzzles (usually one for each of the archetypes - fighter/mage/thief) and a combat system.

Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an adventure / RPG hybrid. Like in many adventure games, you have a world to save, and must use your wit, guile and inventory to puzzle your way through. Like in many roleplaying games, you can customize your character with various classes and skills, and must train yourself in combat to stand a chance against the fierce monsters in your way.

The game is designed in the spirit and atmosphere of the classics, and strives to have the same high quality of art, music, and plot. With multiple character classes and several solutions to many puzzles, the game will have excellent replayability.

Download and read more about it here

Spoiler: screenshots (click to show/hide)

[LeoLeonardoIII]

That looks pretty incredible.

[nenjin]

It seems more than "QFG-like." It seems to be a direct clone with re-written dialogs and screens. Not that that's a bad thing. But it's not just similar. That's QFG 2.0's combat screen and I can clearly see the Spielburg inspiration of the city. I may have to give this a whirl to see how much of an original project it is.

[thepodger]

Uh, its a different game entirely.  The combat screen looks similar, and the art style has that 90s Kings Quest vibe, yes, but that's like saying that every RTS ever is the same game as Warcraft: Orcs and Humans.

[Sonlirain]

Uh, its a different game entirely.  The combat screen looks similar, and the art style has that 90s Kings Quest vibe, yes, but that's like saying that every RTS ever is the same game as Warcraft: Orcs and Humans.

Well Quest for Glory was also a RPG/Adventure hybrid and had lots of combat looting (mostly silver and reagents for the healer... to sell for more silver) ETC. altho there weren't too many items usable outside of puzzles... at least not before QFG 5 that varied the things a little bit.
The inspirations are clearly visible but that's not a bad thing. It's a VERY good thing in fact.

[thepodger]

Right, exactly.  It's clearly an original work in the same way that Pynchon's novels are original works even though Chaucer used pages first.

[Unusedname]

They made a game called deadly games of death?
Yeah I think I'm gonna like this game. bwahaha

[a1s]

They made a game called deadly games of death?

No.
I think you mean deadly rooms of death.
But still no, as far as I can tell.

[Virtz]

They made a game called deadly games of death?

No.
I think you mean deadly rooms of death.
But still no, as far as I can tell.

Oh shoot, my bad. I just saw the DROD game subforums on the same forum as theirs and assumed it's cause they're the same people, but apparently their forum is just hosted as a subforum on the DROD game creators' forums. :V

[Nirur Torir]

I like this so far, seems to be a good QFG-like game.
I nearly died of frostbite, and should probably find a way to solve that issue soon.

Spoiler: Bonus: Dwarf Fortress reference (click to show/hide)

[Sonlirain]

I like this so far, seems to be a good QFG-like game.
I nearly died of frostbite, and should probably find a way to solve that issue soon.

Spoiler: Bonus: Dwarf Fortress reference (click to show/hide)

I assume that monester was someting (very) awful.

[nenjin]

I like this so far, seems to be a good QFG-like game.
I nearly died of frostbite, and should probably find a way to solve that issue soon.

Spoiler: Bonus: Dwarf Fortress reference (click to show/hide)

I assume that monester was someting (very) awful.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tantruming Dwarf

[jetex1911]

I like this so far, seems to be a good QFG-like game.
I nearly died of frostbite, and should probably find a way to solve that issue soon.

Spoiler: Bonus: Dwarf Fortress reference (click to show/hide)

I assume that monester was someting (very) awful.

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Tantruming Dwarf

Skeletal elephant.

Spoiler: THIS (click to show/hide)

A Clown!

[a1s]

I seem to have learned the correct order of stones

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from Regin, which should get me into Svartelfheim. The first 2 stones light up, but the third one doesn't.

What am I missing?

[Virtz]

I seem to have learned the correct order of stones

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

from Regin, which should get me into Svartelfheim. The first 2 stones light up, but the third one doesn't.

What am I missing?

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From the librarian you find out that you have to do it clockwise. As in activate the 3rd, the 6th, then walk downwards, then to the left, then the 1st, and so on.

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Also, from another person (I can't remember whom), you learn that you must make an offering of mead to the stones once they're all active. You can get it either from the tavern in the city, or off a brigand.