Betrayed Alliance Book 1 Reviews
Review by RetroPhoenix80
Betrayed Alliance is a lovely pixel-art Sierra-style text parser game. Mystery and intrigue surround you as you immerse yourself in the land trying to clear your name from being falsely accused of kidnapping the princess! Danger lurks everywhere! Highly reccomended if you like the old classic EGA Quest for Glory style games, or adventure games altogether. Go back in time with the sierra SCI interpreter old style text parser games! A must play.
Review by Adventure Game Geek (Stephen Walker)
Betrayed Alliance is a true love letter to the classic Sierra-style adventure games, inspired by Quest For Glory in particular. The focus is not so much on combat though, but exploration and puzzle solving. There's plenty of places to explore just in this first book, characters to interact with and perils to face! And if you like a good old Sierra death, there's plenty of those as well! Difficulty is set just right and the puzzles aren't at all tedious or illogical. There's even a novice setting that gives you extra hints and allows you to skip certain puzzles, like a slider puzzle for example if you're not a fan of those ;) There's also different side quests like collecting marbles to make up the solar system, or books to be returned to the library for a reward. Without spoiling anything this first book ends on a cliffhanger that gives us a brief taste of what's to come, and I can't wait for the next installment!
Review by Gumby (Jeremiah Nellis)
This game is made in the classic Sierra style, reminiscent of the Quest for Glory series. The graphics and animations are a treat for any classic gamer. Loved it and am looking forward to the sequel.
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Review by theDeivore (Stephen Schroeder)
While seemingly a descendant of Quest for Glory, "Betrayed Alliance" plays out much more like a conventional text parser classic. You'll spend more time exploring the world's history, helping its inhabitants, and fulfilling your grand quest than fighting monsters.
The game strives to be the Sierra you remember, not necessarily the one you experienced. Improvements bring the game in line with more modern ideals, like forewarning before death, a fast travel system, and wonderful real-time elements that play out much more effectively than anything in the old SCI games.
I found the world to be compelling, the puzzles fun, and a few of the backgrounds to be quite impressive by SCI standards. Betrayed Alliance is absolutely worth its short play time, and will leave you eager for Book 2!
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Review by Cosmic_Void (Aviv Salinas)
Betrayed Alliance plays like a classic text parser game, and though there is combat to be had, for the most part it’s optional. A story of intrigue unravels as you progress, but the basic idea is: the princess has been kidnapped.
The art is spot on and is very similar to what one may find in Hero’s Quest (the original SCI version), with some rooms being exceptionally well done. The music however may be a step above and the songs are really nice to listen to outside the game.
There are a bunch of areas to explore and puzzles to solve, which for the most part are easy enough. Once or twice I stumbled around because I couldn’t quite get the right word or verb for the game to recognize.
Very recommended! Go and play!
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