The Great Gaming Crusade's Stephen Lindsey says: "Recently released XBLIG game EvilQuest puts you in the shoes of a dark knight who pillages the land and, well, at the beginning of the game, has been captured by the kingdom you were trying to conquer."
Chaz at Twinfinite writes:
What do you get when you take one part SNES action-RPG, one part indie development, and one part plot twist? EvilQuest, of course. An homage to bygone days of gaming, EvilQuest falls somewhere in between Crystalis for the NES and The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past for the SNES, with the unique story twist that you’re not the hero trying to save the world from annihilation, but rather the dark, powerful foe seeking to kill God himself and destroy the universe. This leads to some campy elements, as you might expect, but overall I thought it was pretty well put together.
EvilQuest is an indie action RPG developed by Chaosoft Games which gives gamers the rare opportunity to actually play a game from the bad guy’s perspective. Despite sometimes feeling bad for the senseless murders you commit throughout the course of the game, it is surprisingly fun to play as a feared evil warlord.
Chaosoft Games announced today via Twitter that their game EvilQuest will be on sale on Desura for $0.99 until December 22nd or until the world ends. Whichever comes first.
I agree with the author about the music, but EvilQuest is an enjoyable game overall. It's certainly worth spending the princely sum of 80 MSP on. Action RPGs are a strangely under-represented genre on Xbox Live Indie Games.
XBL indies trial system is based on a timer, which is very stupid in the case of that game because you just can't see any real gameplay before the trial ends...
That needs to change, let devs choose when they want the demo to stop. So we can can actually finish the intro... It's supposed to be a RPG here!