If it sounds like I’m not really selling The Lost Tales here, then I’ve pretty much gotten across how I feel about it. You’d think with a game of such limited scope they might take the story or mechanics in new, more interesting directions, but this is easily the most uninspired of the series, as well as the smallest. I’ll admit this does help keep the monster grinds from wearing out their welcome, but it does make the generic quests and lack of variety sting that much more. This will no doubt be a disappointment to fans of the other games, but The Lost Tales is very noticeably smaller than its predecessors, barely clocking in at 3 hours for a 100% clear. It’s also easy to keep track of all the NPCs and services here, because the world you have to explore is really, really small.
One welcome improvement in this installment is a wider variety of ways to get common resources, such as alternate crafting routes in addition to centrally-placed vendors. You’re also not on such razor-sharp margins of resources here, meaning you can stock up heavily on potions and power-restoring food to make barreling through a cave of spiders or a marsh of crocodiles go that much faster. The Lost Tales gets frightfully close to a similar grind, but doesn’t really pitch towards it near the last quarter and still breaks it up a bit with other tasks. This was the big thing that killed the third game for me, the absolutely inexorable grind of monsters between you and anything of any interest. Gone are the quests to settle unquiet ghosts or construct your own tallship, leaving you to farm crops, mend fences, and kill many, many, many critters. That’s not the case with The Lost Tales, sadly, because the plot remains almost perfectly predictable, and your chores never extend past the most common of fantasy tasks. The other Hero of the Kingdom games got by with generic quests to save family by inserting lots of fun twists and turns along the way, and also by varying up the many, many, many problems you have to solve through trading. It’s true, there’s a neat little twist near the end of this tale, but for the most part it’s a perfectly boilerplate quest to slay a dragon. You’re also sure to turn up some dark secrets in your journey, and perhaps find that the villain of this story is not who you think. With nothing better to do, you set about helping Brent on his quest, and in doing so help the people of town with their many, many, many problems. A young orphan named Brent has dreams of felling the beast and earning his place among the people, but all these dreams earn him is ridicule. A dragon has been terrorizing the lands, burning homes to ash and devouring livestock. You are a lone wanderer, emerging from the wilderness for the first time in god knows how long only to discover a town in the grip of fear.
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There are enough improvements to get me through this bite-sized adventure, but not enough to give me confidence that the Hero of the Kingdom series will remain a favorite of mine. I’m not sure if that feeling was the consensus, and after finishing The Lost Tales here, it seems that the developers might not have felt they needed to change much since last time. I was incredibly eager to see this after Hero of the Kingdom III, because even with the love I bear for the first two games, the third was a massive disappointment for me. When a series loses its way, I’m always eager to see if the developers learn from their mistakes. Earn 38 fabulous achievements on this harrowing journey.Review copy provided by developer via Curator Connect.Collect herbs, hunt for animals, and go fishing.Meet dozens of strangers, some friendly and others not, as he fulfills various quests.Follow a young man on a search for his father and a way to save the kingdom.Darkness falls over an entire country in this entertaining Adventure.Can you make it through? Find out when you try Hero of the Kingdom today! As the young man's world grows, so will the problems within it. Collect herbs, hunt for animals, and go fishing. Meet dozens of strangers, some friendly and others not, as he tracks his father and fulfills various quests.
Travel with this young man and experience his journey as darkness falls over the entire country. As a whole new world opens before him, danger and discovery become his loyal friends. Now, the young man has nowhere to go but follow the tracks to find his father. While doing his chores, bandits raid the farm and burn it down. With his father on the way to market, a young man is left alone to mind a small farm. A young man's search for his father turns into an adventure of a lifetime in Hero of the Kingdom, a tale of discovery and courage.
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