djsilke
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Infinite Undiscovery Amazon $27.97 http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Undi..._1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1227034445&sr=8-1
Here's an example of how bad the writing is in the game:
You show up in a town with a girl who had just passed out for mysterious reasons, and the first people you run into are two Children of the Corn™, who (despite your best efforts) refuse to believe who you are. They then invite your random ass into their house where they blather on about whatever NPCs do until their mother jumps out of a closet (I'm being facetious, but she does jump out of nowhere) to finish one of their sentences. She rambles on about how dangerous the area has become and how her husband went to the local shrine and hasn't been heard from in days.
Then she asks you to go save him and... wait for it... tells you to take her children with you. TO THE PLACE WHERE HER HUSBAND WENT AND NEVER RETURNED FROM. Oh, and one of the kids can talk to animals, a skill that is never expounded upon nor questioned by anyone.
I quit after finishing that quest because it was a gigantic piece of cliche shit that ended in a room that gave you little to no indication as to what to do next (pro tip: you play one of your flutes next to a wall in the back of the shrine to reveal a secret passageway... brilliant!)
Here's a list of atrocities carried out by the game in the 2 hours or so I played it:
- Stealth Mission
- Breaking out of prison with no intent of helping other unjustly imprisoned people
- New armor does not show up on character
- NPC drops visible key in cut scene, becomes invisible in game
- Campfire scene in a Bubble of Protection™
- NPC in party hates you irrationally
- NPCs abandon you right before an area with a Ridiculously Overpowered Dragon™, a dragon that the townspeople in the area immediately next to don't seem to know is there
The voice acting is bad, the graphics are average, and the story feels like it was cobbled together from every RPG cliche ever made. They must have named it Infinite Undiscovery because RPG: The Game would have tipped their hand just a little too much.
$60 is ludicrous, but $30 is still absurd for this game. It is simply NOT GOOD. The only thing that is marginally working for it is the fact that Tri-Ace makes some of the better battle systems for RPGs, but that is it.