Quest for Camelot (1998 video game)

Quest for Camelot is an action role-playing game developed and published by Titus Interactive with assistance from Nintendo for the Game Boy Color in 1998. It is based on the animated Warner Bros. movie of the same title. The game is compatible with the Super Game Boy, Game Boy Printer and as well as play on the original Game Boy. A Nintendo 64 version of the game was planned[1] but was scrapped due to the film's performance at the box office.

Quest for Camelot
North American cover art
Developer(s)Titus France
Publisher(s)Titus France
Nintendo
Platform(s)Game Boy Color
ReleaseDecember 16, 1998
Genre(s)Action RPG
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

Quest for Camelot is a third-person, 2D action role-playing game.[2] It features nine worlds with 60 levels.[3] The gameplay includes killing enemies in each area, fetch quests, and carry quests.[2] Parts of the story are told through slideshows as cut scenes.[3] The game supports saves on battery and works with the Game Boy Printer.[3]

Plot
See also: Plot of film Quest for Camelot

Kayley has to rescue her mother, as well as Excalibur, from the evil knight, Ruber and along the way defeat enemies, bosses and meet new friends.[4] As Kayley, the player sets out to avenge the death of her father and confront Ruber, the villain.[2]

History

Quest for Camelot was developed and co-published by Titus Interactive and Nintendo. In early 1997 Titus signed a licensing deal with Warner Bros. to make games based on Quest for Camelot for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and Game Boy.[5] It was released on December 16, 1998.[2]

Reception
Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings49.67%[6]
Review scores
PublicationScore
AllGame[2]
IGN4/10[3]
Nintendo Power7.4/10[7]

The game was met with some negative reception, as GameRankings gave it a score of 50%.[6] Adam Cleveland of IGN summarized the game as "bad". He described its core mechanics as "boring"—walking between points and looking for objects. Cleveland noted Titus's reputation for games of poor quality, especially games with licensed content. He criticized the repetitive music, and said the only decent part of the game was its use of color.[3] Allgame's Joe Ottoson criticized how gem collectibles were needed in order to save the game progress. He added that the gameplay was tedious and the menus poorly designed.[2]

gollark: At some point you'll have to make tradeoffs, because going for "maximize lives saved right now at all costs" is a really terrible strategy.
gollark: Strategies which minimize COVID deaths in the short run wouldn't be very good if they totally collapsed the economy after a while. Especially since this is likely to stick around for a while.
gollark: The economy *does matter*, though, even in a "lives saved" sense. As someone on the interweb put it:> Damage to productivity eventually results in damage to people, since we use part of our productivity to preserve life.
gollark: Well, we could engineer humans with better DNA error correction or something, eventually.
gollark: Forever might be an overestimate, but cancer generally will probably stick around for a while as it is a complex and hard-to-cure thing.

References
  1. http://www.ign.com/games/quest-for-camelot-64/n64-1931
  2. Ottoson, Joe. "Quest for Camelot - Review". AllGame. Archived from the original on 2014-11-13. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  3. Cleveland, Adam (1999-08-25). "Quest for Camelot". IGN. Retrieved 2014-03-17.
  4. "Quest for Camelot - Game Boy Color". GameSpy. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  5. "Inside Scoop". GamePro. No. 103. IDG. April 1997. p. 20.
  6. "Quest for Camelot for Game Boy Color". GameRankings. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
  7. "Quest for Camelot". Nintendo Power. 115: 126. December 1998.
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