- February 20, 2018
- Jean-Sébastien Nouveau
Xploquest 2
48%Game Brain Score
gameplay, story
77% User Score 13 reviews
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About
Xploquest 2 is a tiled based role-playing game based on the exploration and management of your character, which takes place in an open world.
Audience ScoreBased on 13 reviews
gameplay3 negative mentions
- Xploquest 2 features multiple quality of life improvements over its predecessor, enhancing the overall gameplay experience.
- The game offers solid content with a sense of character progression and exploration, making it enjoyable for players seeking a free RPG.
- Despite its simplistic graphics, the game provides a mechanically engaging RPG experience with fast-paced combat and a variety of areas to explore.
- The mid-game suffers from grindy gameplay and repetitive mouse-only actions, leading to a frustrating experience for many players.
- The user interface has worsened, making navigation and gameplay less intuitive, and the lack of keyboard controls is a significant drawback.
- The game can feel overly long and lacks essential features like visible health bars for enemies and options for auto-targeting magic, which detracts from the overall enjoyment.
- gameplay9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
Gameplay in the latest installment of Xploquest features several quality-of-life improvements and polished mechanics, but suffers from a grindy mid-game characterized by repetitive mouse-only actions and pacing issues, particularly in the later stages where combat becomes tedious. While the initial hours offer enjoyable exploration and combat, the latter part detracts from the overall experience due to a lack of engaging play-testing and an overwhelming number of clicks required for battles.
“Gameplay consists of tapping on various tiles to explore them, then tapping on various actions to fight monsters, manage your inventory, and so on.”
“It has polished underlying mechanics, despite the shockingly simple graphics.”
“Compared to the first Xploquest, there are definitely multiple quality of life improvements in UI and game mechanics, but the mid-game is such a grindy slog with so many repetitive and boring mouse-only actions caused by mismatched player-monster HP/damage and no available options to progress smoothly to the next stage.”
“The last fifth of the game really gets bogged down in the pace of gameplay. Each fight becomes a mess of mouse clicks. This later part of the game is an extension from the first Xploquest, and it did not get the same quality play-testing. Too bad, because that part of the game introduces a couple of puzzle elements. The fight sequences are just a slog and they are not fun.”
“They are an entirely mechanical RPG experience, and while the fights are fast, the level advancement is leisurely paced.”
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