The graphics were glitchy on my computer, but it’s probably something I could fix by tweaking the settings. However, it’s marred by its narrow scope which leads to a terrible interface. It’s well-written, it’s technically adequate and the puzzles, while easy, aren’t insulting. As it is, they compete in the top tier of indie titles, and come nowhere near them in the level of finish. To summarize, at a considerably lower price, this game may have met people’s expectations. There are many, many such instances, that make you appreciate just how many small details go into good game design. The inn cost 50 coins a week, and then never requested another payment as my quest took considerably longer. You can’t advance the clock at will, but as a corollary time never passes unless you wish it to, and you can always heal to the max at the cost of one third of the day cycle. One example is the quick travel map, which has no locations added to it, ever, isn’t in any logical scale, and contains locations you haven’t visited yet. I also got stuck in several screens, forcing me to switch to direct control to leave, which complemented nicely the screens where I was stuck using direct control, requiring me to use point and click to exit them.īesides bugs, the game is just designed poorly. Without really trying, I was able to make the controls disappear several times, get Roehm stuck in an infinite loop, get into a location I wasn’t supposed to be able to. There are cases where you inexplicably can’t use equivalent objects (in one memorable occasion, the game actually mocked me for trying), sometimes the game is incredibly obtuse (I had to click furiously all over the screen before it recognized the damned fireflies hotspot). Similar design issues plague other sequences. For instance, I was stuck on the rune puzzle for a while, before realizing the game just hadn’t registered the position of the rune - you have to wait for it to sort of snap into place, which calls into question giving you the option to freely rearranging runes to begin with. Puzzles are okay, but are sometimes implemented poorly. It’s also a poor choice that goes a long way towards alienating you to Roehm and the supporting cast. This is a deliberate choice rather than some engine limitation, since other characters do preserve the state of the dialogue tree. In others, you feel like their response to a query should’ve changed, but annoyingly, it hasn’t. In some cases, you find yourself introducing to people over and over and over again. This is both tedious, and immersion-breaking. Unlike games from the era it mimics, dialogue trees are reset every time you leave a conversation. It’s impossible to care or be interested in any of them, in part because of the strange dialogue system. The game is chock-full of characters, but they’re all incredibly thin, serving their role in the plot before moving on. That being said, he’s still the most defined character in a world of cardboard. The acts for which you gain “infamy” are for most part just simple hero stuff, rescuing the poor and protecting the innocent. He’s supposed to be some sort of rogueish anti-hero, but the game doesn’t present him in such a way, or makes you play him that way - instead he’s just a straight up hero that keeps saying “oh wow, I’m so villainous”. Roehm is a rather ill-defined protagonist. As it is, the inescapable comparison to Heroine’s Quest leaves it severely wanting. Quest for Infamy is a labor of love, and its many shortcomings could be forgiven had only the price tag been considerably lower. You owe it to yourself to look up one of the cut-scenes in YouTube, and as a bonus, watching it as just as fun as “playing” this excuse for a game. The only good thing I have to say about it is that acting during the cut-scenes is just unbelievably bad, to the point it’s actually enjoyable to watch. Objectives are not defined at all at first, and then somewhat hinted on via cryptic prophecies, but the lack of a map system, the sparse and deliberately maze-like environment and the complete inability to know what’s interactive or even where you can go, lead you to just stumble around groping blindly until you recognize one of the trivial “puzzles”. What little cerebral challenge there is drowns in a sea of tedium as you find yourself repeatedly using the finicky controls to guide the cockroach through maze after maze of wiring and spilled paint. Bad Mojo isn’t really a game, it’s more of a poorly-controlled maze with a useless lives system.
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