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Gratz on 90 Smith !!! :D I enjoyed the quest, particularly the last bit :D no spoilers here

 

MsClick

One glance at my stats will tell you that that's the least likely place for me to be! At 88, Dungeoneering is still one of my lowest skills.

 

Isn't that why you should be at Daemonheim? :P

Imo, a pillar fell on the storyline, it was horrible! They ruined the storyline of the quest which could of gone for atleast 2 more quests. And WHERES OUR PRAYER ARMOUR? :( Just too many flaws.

 

Gz on 90 smithing anyway :)

I was lucky in that I had the 'show quest area on minimap' thing turned on, so I at least had some clue where Kennith was. I didn't really feel as immersed in this quest as I usually do, because a lot of the quest was about working out how to control things, rather than actually controlling them, and because Kennith was behaving irrationally and anachronistically because that was required by the quest, rather than because it made any sense.

 

I found it odd that Kennith grew up overnight, and I think the quest could have worked very well if he was a teenager - in fact I've always wondered why a game that is (let's face it) aimed at teenagers features children and adults, but no teenagers. The closest we get to engaging with the actual target audience is the fremennik rites of passage, I suppose. There could have been some interesting humorous dialogue, serious points and even self-aware observations on fantasy roleplaying stereotypes made by putting a gawky teenager with low social skills in a quest with the improbably-cleavaged Eva and playing the two off against each other. Instead we get a slightly odd adult male, who doesn't really relate to Ezekiel, who is also taking the slightly odd adult male role.

 

I'm used to getting an 'oh, it that it?' feeling from quests (especially the last one, which really felt like half a quest), but that's usually excusable because things are being held back for the sequel, so I was disappointed with this one. The humour of the break in at demonheim was the quest's high point, but nothing was really made of it, and it made no sense that the slug item was clearly visible in the 4th room we looked in, when I've not seen it once going all the way from level 1 to 81 dungeoneering. It really annoyed me that Jagex are allowed to get us into demonheim with items for next to no reason, but as players we still have to face the absurdly clumsy game mechanic of Fremmeniks who on the one hand treat me like a living god, and trust me with balmung, but on the other hand insist for no discernable reason that can't be trusted to face untold horrors in demonheim with even a lousy bronze dagger to defend myself. I haven't even bothered giong back to try and use Ezekiel's way in, because I know that (for no reason other than trying to balance a badly thought out minigame) some kludged together reason will be constructed so that I won't be allowed to use it.

I really enjoyed the quest. I saw kennith as a teenage (17) personally, but it was impressive to see how he'd grown and I thought it was very interesting. While the Daemonheim part felt a bit like three's company, the mechanics for controlling the extra people were much more polished and once you understood them it became simple, yet satisfying, which I imagine the slug citadel would be. I didn't want EW3's type of puzzle, after all.

 

While the pillar drop was a little saddening (I think they could have done with making the mind control weaken the slug queen and then have us and the gang kill her off), I liked the quest and really enjoyed it. It's the first one I've ever been able to do on release! :) [apart from The Blood Pact whcih doesn't count].

 

P.S. Can you tell me what you think of clan Citadels?

MsClick - Thank you very much!

 

Lucas 2am - LOL Good point!

 

Lol Homework - So the storyline toppled for you at that moment? And thanks!

 

Teacuptime - I went to check. The entrance is merely sealed up. I examined it and it said something like, 'this entrance has been sealed up'. Presumably by Fremmenik workers.

 

I try to do every quest without any in-game help at all (except for finding out the objects needed ahead of time, as I hate having to leave the quest to source something), though it seems that that strategy failed here. LOL on the 'improbably-cleavaged Eva'. I thought it. I so thought it. But figured that the demographic was possibly young men. I agree with everything that you said here on both the quest and Daemonheim as a whole. Jagex rarely excel at continuity and engaging storylines. I wish I could be let lose on their plot-holes.

 

Helm - I haven't played 'Three's Company' yet, mainly because I forgot about it. Ritster reminded me earlier, so I will go and check it out. It sounds like I'll have an advantage, if it's the same sort of control mechanism.

 

Congrats on doing a quest on the day of release! <3

 

I still haven't read about the Clan Citadels, so my only information is what you told me earlier. I'm up for a Citadel Day, where Canting goes to claim a good castle.