Graal Classic Review: Lady of the Garden Quest

Maikeru · 10-26-2011

This review has spoilers on the quest.
If you do not wish to spoil it for yourself, please avoid this topic!

The quest really caught my attention with the details and how the signs caught my interest. The quest is about a lady in the garden who is a ghost buried in the grave for years to come. While walking along the signs, you will see a statue of the lady nearby, showing you what she looks like. After that, you walk past beyond the garden details looking to find a grave which gave a riddle to where you're supposed to go (Sadly, this was easy to find as if the location gave itself out already near the garden). Once you go in, you will encounter the Lady a couple of times repeating the same words as the sign.. This could have been improved if actually the character gave in her backstory and how she became the ghost of the garden. After a couple of encounters, you battle three NPC's. They're like baddies but with super armor (Meaning they cannot get knocked back). After you're done with the quest, you are given somewhat appears to be a shrub-like garden hat. If you complete the quest two more times, you unlock an exclusive version of Azrael's hat and an awesome fruit basket hat. Definitely worth it!

Overall, its interesting in detail and pretty much a unique halloween story but the quest is short. It felt like a cakewalk (Especially with all the players around it helping the new players complete the quest). For a first time Graal Classic quest, i'd actually like it. Its not the best quest that anyone has ever seen but its good to give it a go where theres no players around

Quest: 2/5
Short yet Sweet. Kinda tells its own unique halloween story. Could have been much interesting if the quest expanded or if the quest could have told more about the Lady's backstory

Detail: 4/5
This one really caught my interest. The garden is beautifully visualized and the little details compliments it so perfectly. The cave however was kind of bland but still in overall, looks very interesting

Reward: 4/5
3 Hats for completing the quest 3 times! Thats totally worth it! The reason its not 5 is because i know you guys are pretty much going to ask for hats other than the fruit basket and shrub hat

Overall: 3/5 (Accurate score was 3.3)

G Fatal · 10-26-2011

+rep... Nice review, the reward you can get all the 3 hats by going through the quest again for each hat.

Maikeru · 10-26-2011

Posted by Gricey

+rep... Nice review, the reward you can get all the 3 hats by going through the quest again for each hat.

3 hats? o.o i thought it was only one hat

Azrael · 10-26-2011

Short and sweet...just like her life. I tried to give this a lot of meaning without going too far into her background. The next part of the garden (the woods) should be released soon and that will tie in a little to her past

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A lot of this quest is symbolic. I tried to represent different things in different manners.

Maikeru · 10-26-2011

Posted by Azrael

Short and sweet...just like her life. I tried to give this a lot of meaning without going too far into her background. The next part of the garden (the woods) should be released soon and that will tie in a little to her past

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A lot of this quest is symbolic. I tried to represent different things in different manners.

Thanks for the information Azrael

Tyler · 10-26-2011

I thought it was fun, but short lol. They should do more quests like this. They're really fun to do.

Kentiman · 10-26-2011

This was short, but fun. People have complained for quests so long and they finally got one

Posted by Azrael

Short and sweet...just like her life. I tried to give this a lot of meaning without going too far into her background. The next part of the garden [(the woods)[ould be released soon and that will tie in a little to her past

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A lot of this quest is symbolic. I tried to represent different things in different manners.

The un-enterable door in the woods by the pet cemetary? By the way it says "Pet Semetary" instead of Cemetary....

Azrael · 10-26-2011

I know it says Pet Semetary. You need to study up on your horror movies

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callimuc · 10-26-2011

Actually I thought the quest would be longer but it´s alright ^^

Kentiman · 10-26-2011

Posted by Azrael

I know it says Pet Semetary. You need to study up on your horror movies

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Oh I haven't really watched many horror movies...but you still didn't answer my question. I guess you can't though.

G Fatal · 10-26-2011

Posted by Maikeru

3 hats? o.o i thought it was only one hat

Nope you have to go through the quest again for each of the hats

P.S. Great work Azrael! It gives us a little insight of how quests might be like when they come to iClassic.[Remi said he thinks Quests will be released with lavaland near christmas]...If thats right, can't wait to see all of the staffs work.

Pauli · 10-26-2011

Posted by Gricey

Remi said he thinks Quests will be released with lavaland near christmas...If thats right, can't wait to see all of the staffs work.

That will be a reason to login too graal and play it

The litle quest is really nice but what i did miss was the sound effects from the gohst like the one from classic pc or the animation when the gohst is coming up or is leaving but it's nice to play it

Can't wait for future updates

Chaotic · 10-26-2011

The interns don't intern for Eurocenter anymore.

Anyways nice, but the rose w/ eyeball logo is trademarked and the song on the signs is copyrighted, might want to be careful.

Higbey · 10-26-2011

Posted by Chaotic

The interns don't intern for Eurocenter anymore.

Anyways nice, but the rose w/ eyeball logo is trademarked and the song on the signs is copyrighted, might want to be careful.

Yea I noticed that too.. I feel like maybe we should have more of these things to make a little backstory of graal to see, I feel like there should be a way to go back to the past... You know, the tutorial "server" or whatever in the pan handle with the young npcs and stuff like that, maybe have that so people can go back to the old gmap... Maybe methinks a way to preserve the old gmap while changing the new?

Dont know how stefan would feel, might get a bit paranoid about the going to be able to go to the past and feel like it was copying lttp too much and the apple would remove the app.

R o s é · 10-28-2011

Should make the ghosties harder to kill.

The quest reminded me of Diablo 2 at Arreats Summit where you have to kill the ancients in order to proceed to Baal's chamber.

MORE QUESTS PLEASE! WE LOVE THEM!!!! (Possibly more advanced)

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Maikeru Quack Quack~ Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,810	Graal Classic Review: Lady of the Garden Quest This review has spoilers on the quest. If you do not wish to spoil it for yourself, please avoid this topic! The quest really caught my attention with the details and how the signs caught my interest. The quest is about a lady in the garden who is a ghost buried in the grave for years to come. While walking along the signs, you will see a statue of the lady nearby, showing you what she looks like. After that, you walk past beyond the garden details looking to find a grave which gave a riddle to where you're supposed to go (Sadly, this was easy to find as if the location gave itself out already near the garden). Once you go in, you will encounter the Lady a couple of times repeating the same words as the sign.. This could have been improved if actually the character gave in her backstory and how she became the ghost of the garden. After a couple of encounters, you battle three NPC's. They're like baddies but with super armor (Meaning they cannot get knocked back). After you're done with the quest, you are given somewhat appears to be a shrub-like garden hat. If you complete the quest two more times, you unlock an exclusive version of Azrael's hat and an awesome fruit basket hat. Definitely worth it! Overall, its interesting in detail and pretty much a unique halloween story but the quest is short. It felt like a cakewalk (Especially with all the players around it helping the new players complete the quest). For a first time Graal Classic quest, i'd actually like it. Its not the best quest that anyone has ever seen but its good to give it a go where theres no players around Quest: 2/5 Short yet Sweet. Kinda tells its own unique halloween story. Could have been much interesting if the quest expanded or if the quest could have told more about the Lady's backstory Detail: 4/5 This one really caught my interest. The garden is beautifully visualized and the little details compliments it so perfectly. The cave however was kind of bland but still in overall, looks very interesting Reward: 4/5 3 Hats for completing the quest 3 times! Thats totally worth it! The reason its not 5 is because i know you guys are pretty much going to ask for hats other than the fruit basket and shrub hat Overall: 3/5 (Accurate score was 3.3) Last edited by Maikeru; 10-26-2011 at 01:08 PM.

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G Fatal Banned Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: UK Posts: 3,215	+rep... Nice review, the reward you can get all the 3 hats by going through the quest again for each hat.

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Azrael Zanza Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Richmond, VA Posts: 426	Short and sweet...just like her life. I tried to give this a lot of meaning without going too far into her background. The next part of the garden (the woods) should be released soon and that will tie in a little to her past . A lot of this quest is symbolic. I tried to represent different things in different manners.

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Tyler Dark Desert Fox Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: United States, Ohio Posts: 5,720	I thought it was fun, but short lol. They should do more quests like this. They're really fun to do.

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callimuc Registered User Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Germany Posts: 6,122	Actually I thought the quest would be longer but it´s alright ^^

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Chaotic busy Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Richmond, VA Posts: 2,270	The interns don't intern for Eurocenter anymore. Anyways nice, but the rose w/ eyeball logo is trademarked and the song on the signs is copyrighted, might want to be careful.

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R o s é MR THIRSTY Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 35	Should make the ghosties harder to kill. The quest reminded me of Diablo 2 at Arreats Summit where you have to kill the ancients in order to proceed to Baal's chamber. MORE QUESTS PLEASE! WE LOVE THEM!!!! (Possibly more advanced)