Review: WrestleQuest Comes Off The Top Rope With A Solid Debut Effort
Now let me tell ya something brother, this here WrestleQuest is one happening game, dude! It’s got some of the most famous faces to step into a square circle, even some the younger MMOamaniacs might not even remember, jack! The turn-based battle system turns a match into a RPG battle in a really cool way, even in the later stages of the game, chief. Whatcha gonna do when WrestleQuest-a-mania runs wild on you?!?!
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WrestleQuest’s follows the story of Randy “Muchacho Man” Santos, whose love of pro wrestling is second to none. He lives, eats, and breathes the graps, to the point where he…might not realize its true nature. His journey to the top to be the cream of the crop is what serves as the backbone of this turn-based tussle.
The world of WrestleQuest leans into the farcical elements of pro wrestling, as every character in the game is a toy rather than a living human being. Some of them aren’t even wrestling figures; they’re stuffed animals or Barbie-esque dolls. Instead of going for cutting-edge realism, Mega Cat decided we were kids playing pretend, and the whimsical nature of that choice is a huge boon. I never knew what was going to come next, simply because I didn’t know what part of my nostalgic past Mega Cat was going to pull from next.
On that front, the game is absolutely stuffed with references of and cameos from real-world pro wrestling. One of the first scenes in the game is a podcast studio with Conrad Thompson, host of multiple successful wrestling shows. Names like Diamond Dallas Page, Junkyard Dog, and “The Macho Man” Randy Savage also appear, which warms my lifelong wrestling fan heart.
However, I do feel some of those cameos might be lost on folks who are here for the RPG and not the wrestling. I
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