Reviews - Yeto´s Quest - Quests

First, a short story. I live-stream Zelda Classic quests on and off, and I try to mix up what I play based on how I’m feeling at the time. So last night, after finishing a previous quest, I noticed that this quest had a half-star rating and realized at the time I would enjoy streaming through a really bad quest. And so I did. Start to finish, no cheats, no looking into the quest file, nothing but the hints Yeto provides in the description. To be completely honest, many of my viewers and I actually had quite a good time.

The main gameplay facet of this quest is the same as many others: exploration. I found, however, that exploration in this quest had a much deeper meaning. Not only must you diligently search the overworld, caves, and dungeons; you need to search for the meaning of different rooms and objects, and determine why they even exist. Sometimes the answer is that rooms are just dead ends, or objects are meaningless; some puzzles and mazes are unsolvable, but it’s in realizing these things that you make progress in the quest. Yes, you can screw yourself by using keys in the wrong order. Yes, you can screw yourself by continue warping into walls. So, you need to gain as much information as possible without making strong commitments. The short length of this quest lends itself well to this style of exploration. The secrets in this quest are brilliantly laid out such that earlier useless secrets teach you how to look for more difficult and more meaningful ones. In this way, a secret that doesn’t give a new item may still have meaning in that it guides you forward. It turns out the quest design isn’t quite as horrible as it first seems (and discovering this, by itself, felt like very interesting progress.)

This quest was an emotional roller-coaster. The anticipation after finally finding a new key that may allow me to move forward, and the rejection when, using them all, I hit yet another key door. The fear of being trapped in a wall or a room and not being able to safely continue out, and the relief of returning to known areas. Tinges of disbelief in Yeto and his hints that the quest really is beatable, but underlying faith and hope that there must be some way. Being faced with seemingly impossibly strong enemies, and triumph over them when realizing they really can be beaten. Wandering aimlessly, lost in the dark, but eventually coming to an understanding of the map and the area layouts. Laughter at the quest’s flaws and nonsense, laughter at my own mistakes, and deep concentration during difficult fights, or while solving a maze. Being faced with many mysteries, and the feeling of discovering their solutions. Being overjoyed when finally discovering the bombs, or better yet finally reaching the elusive ladder. Intrigue: the quest made me ask so many questions. Was this intentional? What was he thinking? Why is this here? How do I do this? Is this even possible? And in the end, when the smoke clears out, the resolution at the end of the quest, the knowledge and the answers that all fall into place. I felt such great satisfaction at the conclusion.

Do I recommend this quest? No. Just about anyone will hate it. As a quest, it really is quite horrible. But as an experience, I have to say, I enjoyed fighting through this quest more than nearly any of the quests I’ve recently played. With the right mindset (enough patience and being able laugh off the flaws and the nonsense,) this quest becomes something very special. To pull from what I said on stream, sometimes it’s not about you playing and enjoying the quest yourself, it’s about just recognizing the quest for what it is.

Yeto´s Quest

TheOnlyOne

Haylee

Yeto´s Quest

TheOnlyOne

Haylee

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