3 Skulls RPG

Back when the computers did not have enough power to render 3D graphics and exquisite soundtracks, people used other means to entertain themselves, especially when it came to video games. Hence, text-based RPGs were quite popular, even if they were nothing more than interactive books with loads upon loads of text decorating the screen. Imagination, however, can always be enough to transport you into a different world.

3 Skulls RPG aims to give a taste of the same kind of experience, by allowing you to participate in a similar journey, albeit heavily improved over the DOS-based titles that popularized the genre back in the day. Despite that, everything is still relayed in text form, which means that most of the game is spent reading dialogue, reading about the landscape your party finds itself in, as well as reading about the epic battles you happen to be in the middle of.

Naturally, this kind of game is not for everyone, since the lack of a visual component might be enough to scare away most players, not to mention the extensive amounts of dialogue and general descriptions that need to be read in order to advance further into the quest. However, if you let your imagination fly free, things quickly start to materialize in your head and the adventure becomes just as real as any other 3D game.

In the beginning of the game, you are allowed to create your own party and manually choose the race, genre and class of your characters, as well as spend their ability points as you see fit. Naturally, this means that you can practically introduce anyone, or anything into the game, such as characters from other games, movies, or even yourself, if you can bear the fact that you will be killed multiple times during the adventure.

Since the technical part is almost non-existent, at least when it comes to graphics and audio quality, the control is everything that sort of resembles the one seen in an actual RPG. Hence, you can use the numerical keys to navigate between your dialogue options, but the mouse is the most important component, since it allows you to click on items and choose what to do next. The combat is turn based and you get plenty of time to come up with the right strategy.

Although the game is riddled with spelling and punctuation errors, while the story is not that great either, 3 Skulls RPG accomplishes its purpose and it can certainly make you remember a few things, if they were there to begin with and you happen to be a fan of the genre at hand.