Edit: Staff contacted me an basically told me that I'd have to bump up my rating for all quests I have ever reviewed by one star. Note that this does not reflect my own opinion on the matter, or the quest, but just that it was something I was made required to do.
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This is a short but fairly competent quest. It get most things right, but there are some problems with it too. Is it worth playing? Yes. Is it worth doing a 100% run? Hell fucking no!
This is one of those games that is definitively worth experiencing, as the gameplay is overall solid and the humorous plot is worth seeing through till the end. There are a few dips in quality in the design, and there are some features missing that I'd like to see. *coughoverworldspacebarmapcough* Music, audio, and visuals are pleasing and nothing struck out to me as bad. The difficulty in the quest is reasonable enough, and while you might die on a few bosses before you figure out how to beat them, nothing is too hard to beat once you know what to do.
So yeah, overall great quest!
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I wish I could leave it at that, but sadly, there are some bad things in this quest too. The post game content is pretty tosh, to put it mildly. The first bonus dungeon (which is rather short,) is fine, though the boss fight is quite a large of a difficulty spike. The problem is the second one, which has to be one of the most horrible dungeons by design that I have ever had the pleasure to play. It's hard to describe just in how many ways the dungeon is terrible, but sufficient to say, you don't want to play it. I can look past it since it's technically optional side content post the games completion, but it feels a bit cheap too, given that there is a continuation of the plot there.
Furthermore, this quest features an extremely infuriating minigame. I wouldn't mind it too much if it weren't for the fact that certain major character upgrades seem to come from doing well enough in it. The problematic part is that you have no idea either what the rewards are, how many there are (ergo, if there still are any left to gain,) what your score needs to be to get the next one. I gave it quite many tries and I got two pieces of heart from it, but from my understanding there are more rewards. In general, players are expected to have a mastery of this minigame to 100% the quest. And given the difficulty level of that, I don't think necessarily it's well designed to expect that.
I give this quest bananas/10 too few "oh banana" sound effects.
