Video Game / Quest Fantasy

Quest Fantasy is a series of RPG Maker VX Ace games of intentionally low quality. Default graphics and sound, terrible grammar, overly cliched plot-lines, and such, all Played for Laughs. The series follows various protagonists' adventures in various periods of time, as they complete various missions, some of which are given by Old Guy The King, and defeat various foes, eventually facing off against a mysterious and powerful evil that threatens the world.

The series is complete, and not only involves games made by the creator, Arale, but also fangames that were deemed canon.

List of games in the series:

• Quest Fantasy - The original, in which HERO is sent by the King to kill an Ogre.
• Final Dragon - Prequel canonized fangame taking place shortly before the original, in which kawaii desu girl/GIRL sets out to kill the titular Final Dragon.
• Mystic Infinity - Prequel canonized fangame taking place years in the past, in which Dragonslayer Cain seeks the Dragon Blade to kill the dragons that are polluting the water.
• Quest Fantasy Love Plus Shoujo Edition - Dating Sim taking place shortly after the original, starring either John or Jane as he/she visits a mansion with three eligible bachelors and gets together with one of them.
• Fate Demon - Takes place years before any of the games, and is the earliest entry in the series, starring Guy in his quest to kill the Terracota Ogre.
• Xenospire - Prequel canonized fangame taking place shortly after Mystic Infinity, in which Oswald explores a cave and encounters the fairy Pimpalicious Sparkleshitz, who helps him in his quest to find the titular Xenospire.
• Quest Fantasy: Era Ovation Acceptance - the final game in the series taking place shortly after LPSE. The entire world is threatened by a great evil, and it is up to a new chosen hero to Save the World.

WARNING: due to the spoilery nature of the series, all spoilers are unmarked.

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This series provides examples of:

• All Just a Dream: The Disguised Horror Story in Fate Demon turns out to be this, though apparently it's because something tried to warn Guy against killing things just because he was told to (which doesn't work.)
• Anachronic Order: Jumps all over the place in the timeline. Only two of the various games that aren't the original actually take place afterwards.
• Arc Number: 7874. It's the amount of health S O U L heals, part of the username of the fictional author, and the number of Divine Oracles of Truth.
• Author Avatar: A large number.
  • Author Insert in Final Dragon, of the creator of said fangame.
  • 7874doom, the fictional creator of the original game/series. A throwaway line at the end of EOA confirms people worship him as their god.
  • Arale in EOA, as the ACTUAL creator of the series. However, subverted in that it is actually Shachihata impersonating Arale.
• Big Bad: S O U L is the ultimate threat to the fantasy world who is distorting and corrupting it into its own image, and is using Old Guy The King to do so. Every game in the series has each protagonist eventually encounter S O U L.
• Big Bad Ensemble: In Era Ovation Acceptance, in addition to S O U L, the villain of the series who targets the game world and wants to corrupt it, the game introduces two rival entities; President Snaily Joe, leader of Virtuoso who wants to rule the world as its democratic leader in the wake of S O U L's destruction; and Shachihata, a world-eating dimensional parasite who wants to devour the world.
• Big Damn Heroes: Subverted with the Dimensional Stability Officer. He shows up just in time to help, but admits that there's nothing he really can do besides give Morshu instructions in how to live in the world after the game.
• Blatant Lies: From Quest Fantasy Love Plus Shoujo Edition, "IN TA LAS GAME, OGRE WAS DIE AND IT WAS HAPPY END."
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Guy's best friend (a piece of cheese with a curly mustache) can't go with him on his adventure in Fate Demon because "he doesn't have walking sprites the author can't afford fancy programs and his mom wont let him download gimp". This is only one of several examples, as Author Avatar, The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You, and the such run rampant. Highlights include playing as the player's energy turned into RPG Maker data, having multiple characters directly address you, and by the end of EOA, No Fourth Wall whatsoever.
• But Thou Must!: Pretty much a Running Gag. Sometimes played for humor, other times for horror, but you can practically never say no to a question.
• Call-Back: Morshu doesn't know how to play the TROMBONE.
• Call-Forward: Cain gives one to Final Dragon when climbing the rope in the dungeon.
  Cain: BOY I SURE HOPE NOTHING SPOOKY HAPPENS DURING MY DESCENT
• Cerebus Syndrome: Not only does the first game's plot become much darker and more serious, the plot of the rest of the series after the first game is substantially more convoluted and defined.
• Chekhov's Gun: Literally with the Etherblast Gun/Gigantes Axe item duality, spanning the entire series. In the very first game, an Etherblast Gun taken out of a chest turns into a Gigantes Axe. This is never mentioned again until the very end of the final game, where Marina gives you the Gigantes Axe just in case it comes in handy, and it turns back into the Etherblast Gun just in time for Morshu to shoot Old Guy The King.
• Creepypasta: Mentioned by S O U L. He asks you if you think the game is scary, or if it's a silly creepypasta game.
• Dating Sim: LPSE.
• Disguised Horror Story: It starts off light, with characters cheerfully going "oh es so kawaii" and a simplistic plot. Then everything goes straight to Hell with characters brutally dying and several Eldritch Abominations turning up.
• The Dragon: Old Guy The King.
• Driven to Suicide: HERO.
• Easter Egg:
  • A reference to the Disguised Horror Story book Model-A-Monster in the 'arcaid'.
  • Parodied with the rapidly-moving, hard-to-miss teddy bear in the first screen of Final Dragon. Catching it has the game tell you it's an Easter Egg.
  • Another, far more easy to catch NPC does the same thing in Fate Demon, even declaring that it's like the one in Final Dragon.
  • The Spooky Scary Skeletons video in LPSE.
  • Dandy's room in EOA.
• Enemy Mine: The Dimensional Stability Officer tells Morshu that if he has to choose between assisting Eldritch abominations S O U L or Shachihata, to choose the former - the Big Bad for the entire series up to this point.
• Episodic Game: Although not referred to as episodes, the games are so short and are all puzzle pieces in one big story, so it has the same effect.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You:
  • S O U L begins talking to the player, "T H E O N E A T T H E C O M P U T E R". He asks him if he's scared or if he thinks it's a silly creepypasta game. He then says he'll be coming after you're done playing.
  • Also in LPSE, S O U L attacks the player directly.
• Freeware Game
• Guide Dang It!: Everything about LPSE. What items you're supposed to give to the characters is often completely contradictory to basic logic, and getting the secret ending involves making all the characters hate you.
  • In EOA, Dandy's room is hidden all the way at the beginning of the game and only activates after unlocking the end of the game.
• Identical Grandson: Lampshaded in Fate Demon when some NPCs muse that they might have descendants that look exactly like them.
• Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: Mostly due to the Anachronic Order, the storyline gets complex fast.
• Jump Scare:
  • Parodied when Shittyghost briefly appears on screen with a message saying “FEEL SAD”.
  • Another one happens in Final Dragon after talking to the king, and again in Mystic Infinity after climbing the rope.
• Marathon Boss: All the bosses go on for a bit too long, with the exception of Ogre, Terracotta Ogre, and Gargoyle. Especially notable, though, is S O U L in the original, since there is literally no gameplay besides mashing attack until something happens.
• Meta Guy: Adam from Mystic Infinity is completely aware that he's in a video game, and knows absolutely everything that happens in the plot. He keeps trying to warn Cain, who just thinks he's insane.
• Mind Screw: "You open the chest. You were inside!" The plot itself gets pretty overly convoluted as well.
• Nightmare Sequence: Parodied in LPSE. Examining the bed plays the Spooky Scary Skeletons music video.
• No Ending: EOA, the Grand Finale, "concludes" with Shachihata, who has just been revealed as a third Eldritch Abomination out to devour the entire world, forcibly triggering the end credits. The plotlines involving S O U L and Snaily Joe, the other entities, wreaking havoc on the world is left unresolved.
• No Fourth Wall: Although the fourth wall gets broken a lot, it truly drifts into this territory with the ending of EOA, in which stopping the credits from activating, the characters only having one portrait, and certain locations not being programmed into the game are plot points.
• Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Paraphrased by a citizen of Victorioso despite the fact that the president is an eldritch snail.
• Non-Standard Game Over:
  • The end of the non-prequel games.
  • Fate Demon also has a monster on the map that will kill you instantly Ultimate Chimera-style if it touches you.
• People's Republic of Tyranny: Victorioso is a town that Snaily Joe insists is a democracy, but he has absolute control over it, and it is indicated that he, as an Eldritch Abomination, influenced the citizens into voting for him.
• Re-Cut: The 1.1 bugfix update for Love Plus Shoujo Edition was entitled "Director's Cut", as an over-exaggeration of the necessity to re-download it.
• Recycled Premise: Invoked in Fate Demon, which has the exact same plot as Quest Fantasy, with a guy (named Guy) going on a quest to slay a Terracota Ogre which causes terrifying things to happen. Then it turns out Guy is Old Guy The King, the disturbing imagery in this particular installment was all a dream and S O U L began trying to channel through him all this time ago.
• The Reveal:
  • Quest Fantasy: The king sent you to kill the Ogre so he could take his money and burn down Town, HERO is thenon referred to as MURDERER and has to fight S O U L and wins said battle by committing suicide.
  • Final Dragon: The king was the Divine Oracle of Truth and killing the Final Dragon was one of the last steps to bringing about S O U L.
  • Mystic Infinity: S O U L was spreading his influence even this far back in the form of P R I M A L S O U L, and once again Cain's actions were just another piece in the plan to bring him about.
  • Love Plus Shoujo Edition: A lot more exposition is given on the various Divine Oracles of Truth, and their purpose in life. Also, S O U L's influence is spreading, and the mansion's existence was all a trap in the first place.
  • Fate Demon: Guy is not just any Guy, but Old Guy The King, the Stylistic Suck in this particular installment was All Just a Dream, and this is when S O U L first began influencing the world.
  • Xenospire: This one is particularly nonsensical - a bunch of random Self-Deprecation happens and then title screen. Word of God confirms that what actually happened was that Oswald and Pimpalicious exited the Xenospire, but years had passed and everything was destroyed.
  • Era Ovation Acceptance, and the series as a whole: The author appears and talks for a bit, but then walks Morshu home. Suddenly, a Dimension Stability Officer shows up and reveals the author to actually be an Eldritch parasite named Shachihata who is trying to activate the credits sequence so that she can eat the world. The Officer admits he can't really do anything about it, though, but implies that Shachihata and S O U L will be battling for the world, and encourages Morshu to help S O U L win, since a world taken over by S O U L is better than no world at all.
• Running Gag:
  • "potoins" are a recurring item that keep getting brought up in the prequels. Even characters speaking with normal grammar will refuse to refer to them as anything but potoins. The only time they are ever called potions is in some games' menus.
  • Characters who are rapidly moving about the room, and when you finally catch them, they say nothing of value.
  • Instances of But Thou Must! are frequent, and almost every choice is not a choice at all.
• Shout-Out:
  • After defeating the Ogre, you get transported to a ruined town. The music that plays is the original Japanese version of Lavender Town.
  • The S O U L fight music is "The Song of Unhealing", Zelda's Song of Healing played backwards, as seen in Ben Drowned.
  • The filename for S O U L's image is entitled "giygas". He is a red spiral, who uses attacks the player cannot understand. In addition, MURDERER himself uses an attack with the text "You cannot comphrehend your attack!"
  • "Model-A-Monster", a very small bit of Easter Egg text, is a reference to an old arts and crafts book of the same name. Said book is also a Disguised Horror Story.
  • The 2Spooky meme gets one in Mystic Infinity.
  • The final boss music in Mystic Infinity is an (extremely terrible) rendition of The Final Countdown, and the baby version of Kawaii Desu Girl's mother declares "oppa Gangnam Style" after her rescue.
    • A guard in Fate Demon also declares that the door he's guarding is "opan Gangnam Style (lol)"
  • Fantasy Quest Love Shoujo Edition starts off the game by asking "But first, are you a boy or a girl?"
    • And some of the menu words are misspelled, like "wepon" your "stasis" screen also explains that "you was one day in an office typing on a computer". The male protagonists' default name is John...
    • The player's nightmare is set to "Spooky Scary Skeletons".
    • Hipster Cheese is a character who was 'borrowed' from Middens.
• Stock Video Game Puzzle: Two of the four (extremely easy) puzzles in the Final Dragon's dungeon are a Block Puzzle and a Lock and Key Puzzle, the other two being a riddle (answerable via a multiple choice window with one option) and an enemy encounter.
• Stylistic Suck: The entire series appears to look like this at first, with crude grammar, overly simple plots, and using default sprites.
• Surreal Horror: Once the games' true colors are revealed, they take a hard dive into this territory.
• Surreal Humor: The amount of utter nonsense and in-jokes in the Stylistic Suck makes it drift into this.
• Take That!: Raven Force is based off of somebody who criticized the original game despite seemingly missing the point entirely.
• Tempting Fate:
  • When kawaii desu girl asks HERO in Final Dragon if he wants to be friends, he replies "yes you will never regret this decision"
  • And again in Mystic Infinity, when Cain is told to leave kawai desu girl's future mother with the shopkeeper. Cain then proclaims "sounds like an idea that COULDN'T POSSIBLY LEAD TO ANYTHING NEGATIVE"
  • The Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here guy in Victorioso. Ignoring the fact that the president is an Eldritch snail, his town is closer to S O U L territory than any other.
• Visual Novel: The author admits that the games are more like this than RPGs at times, since a lot of the gameplay is just walking and talking to things.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Killing Ogre and causing the destruction of your home town causes the game to rename your character "MURDERER" and give him MS Paint Black Eyes of Evil.
• Year Outside, Hour Inside: Cain's battle with P R I M A L S O U L took ten years, even though it didn't feel nearly that long to him.
• You Can't Get Ye Flask: In a way similar to Problem Sleuth, the Etherblast Gun turns into the Gigantes Axe after being taken, and pianos are occasionally acknowledged by characters as TROMBONEs.

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