WrestleQuest Review (RPG Gamer Man)
Hello Friends,
Today I will review the game Wrestlequest. This is a indie game that goes into the history of WWE wrestling. The storyline follows a wrestler(s) that want to achieve the ultimate goal. They wish to become the best wrestlers in the world. Every wrestler dreams of this, but it takes a special breed of wrestlers to become the top of the top. Being in the footsteps of past heroes, like Randy "Macho Man" Savage, these wrestlers have big shoes to fill. Hopefully, these wrestlers will not lose their way to the top.
There is much history in this game, about past and present wrestlers. This information is quite inciteful and interesting. There are some issues with this game though. While personally playing it, I ran into several bugs, including 2 that basically are major bugs in the game. One is caused by equipping a arm for a wrestler called the SAILOR ARM. Once a wrestler equips this, it is permanent. This can soft lock players into permanently having a handicap on their fighting in the rest of the game. You can see more information here about this major bug:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1867510/discussions/0/787664259085504645/
The problem with this bug is that if the equipment is permanently on the character, only the developers can fix it. As you can see in the above forum post, I had to get help from the developers to fix this issue.
Another major bug i found is a fight halfway thru the game with a character named CORONOR. When the player fight her fights, there is a specific move the player needs to do that is mandatory in the fight, but the game hangs up while trying to do it, and freezes up the game, basically soft locking the game at that point for players. I am unsure how I even got out of this bug, but after resetting the game more than 3 times, it seemed to fix itself.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1867510/discussions/0/604142224713723770/
There are also many other minor bugs. I will list the minor bugs in the PROS/CONS area below:
PROS:
- A retro style game about wrestlers.
- Many historical facts about old wrestlers in the game.
- Fighting enemy wrestlers consists of fighting in a ring, no matter where the fight takes place.
- Players can choose to be a heel or a face. This may affect the game and who can be recruited and which skills can be learned.
- Many companions to find for the wrestlers stable.
- Side quests which mostly consist of meeting classic WWE stars.
CONS:
- Sailor Arm permanent equipment bug can softlock game. See link for more information: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1867510/discussions/0/787664259085504645/
- Coronor Fight major bug softlocks the game in a permanent state. See link for more info: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1867510/discussions/0/604142224713723770/
- Sometimes music overlaps tracks. This happens mostly in the northern area around Pondfork on the map. For example, you can hear the music for outside while entering buildings overlapping the inside music.
- Menu screen glitches that have text superimposed over each other. For example: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1867510/discussions/0/787664259085505981/
- Many crashes. This could be linked to the steam overlay. If you're reading this review and want to try this game out, try turning off steam overlay and see if it fixes crashing issues. Even on the Boss rush thing after beating the game, the game softlocked me in the game.
- Some weird shadow effects on certain battles. For example, the PAW logo appearing thru the feet of some wrestlers when fighting boss fights.
Do I recommend this game? Not in its current state. There are many bugs that the developer still needs to fix to improve the game. Although the game is solid, the bugs take away any magic found in the game. The whole reason i got this game was because i love the classic wrestlers. I did not let this love make me biased though on the games multiple bugs. The developer is aware of many of these bugs, and I hope in the future they can fix to improve the game to make it better. When they do, this review will change to positive.
NOTE: This was done on current version of game, which is vesion 1.2J.