“Forgotten Majesty”
Developer: Kindredz
Genre: RPG
Status: Demo
Length: 2 to 3 hours of gameplay
Best Feature: Ocassional humor
Worst Feature: Heinous execution
Recommended: No

I’m almost sad to say that my first review for B*B had to be of “Forgotten Majesty”, as it is truly an abomination. This game is an 8-bit RPG that I have reason to believe was made by an 8-year-old.

STORY: 2/20 The story of “Forgotten Majesty” is almost non-existent, and what is there is hackneyed, cliché, lacking in intrigue, boring, and a list of many other negative adjectives. The plot is practically absent-minded, as the focus jumps from one idea to another before you can realize you didn’t give a damn about the last one.

CHARACTERS: 1/15 The characters are absolutely outrageous. They’re all cardboard cutouts of RPG characters we’ve seen thousands of times, and these are portrayed even faker than that. Their dialogue was so horrid that it felt like bad acting, very bad acting.

POLITICS: 0/10 Politics were non-existent in this game.

MUSIC AND SOUND: 4/10 Game’s music was bad, not just bad, but truly uninspired. A bad mixture of pop and rap midis combined with way too much music from video games. The only saving grace was a few well-composed original midis.

GRAPHICS: 2/8 Graphics were almost entirely RTP, and used poorly. What little extra graphics there were were almost always mixed with RTP. The main characters were apparently Spanish, or something like that, and their character sets were bland, and their facesets were altogether poorly done edits of the RTP facesets.

SYSTEMS: 6/9 A somewhat competent number of systems were present in “Forgotten Majesty”, but most of them were superfluous. Namely Kethan’s Cherubim, which was more likely to do as much harm to the party as it was to the enemies. However, a modest bit of programming went into other systems, which were done well with few problems. One of the games few features that didn’t hurt.

GAMEPLAY: 1/15 Awkward and, to put it bluntly, dumb. Nothing about the game was engrossing, the maps were designed awfully, towns were ugly and uninteresting and all looked the same, clichés from here to eternity. One particularly bad feature was the dialogue pertaining to the use of explicatives. Dialogue will go like "I'm gonna kick your *ss" and "Holy sh*t", yet one character called the other one "twat-mouth", leading me to believe that the game’s developer is ten years old. There is nothing good to be said about gameplay.

(SUB-CATEGORY: DIFFICULTY – 2/5 Unbalanced, very unbalanced. Battles were too hard and offered little valid alternative aside from running away. A lot of the monsters offered no difficulty at all but had far too many hit points and were wastes of time.

(SUB-CATEGORY: FUN: 3/5 The games one feature that’s even worth being noted as decent is the humor. The story is detracted from various little skits and scenes, but in all honestly, they help a good deal. The humor is all cartoonish, and in most cases directly out of the “Simpsons”, but it’s a welcome amendment to the horror that is the rest of “Forgotten Majesty”.

OVERALL: 21/97 (22%) In conclusion, “Forgotten Majesty” should be just that: Forgotten, and the game’s developer shunned. This is abominable work that I would not recommend to anyone.