A long time, in a land far far away, an old king was about to die, but he had a dilemma. Although he wished for a child to become the king when he died, it was never to be and the question of who should inherit the throne was left open. So, as he was on his deathbed, he ordered a great competition to test the mettle of all the adventurers in the land: the winner would take the crown. The competition was set up, split into seven distinctive worlds filled with crazy monsters and hazardous traps.You are one of the competitors in the games.
Loony Quest is a fun video-game inspired drawing game where you have to quest through different levels in order to collect the most experience points. At the start of a round, you place a level card in a holder in the centre. Each person then takes a transparent sheet on which they have to draw - by eye - various dots, circles and lines, with the aim of hitting, encircling and joining the different places on the level card in front of them. After 30 seconds everyone (finished or not) takes it in turns to place their sheet on top of the level card and see how they've done. You get a certain amount of points for completing objectives (like joining up two points on the level card) and minus points if you have touched any traps or monsters. Once everyone has calculated their score, you move on to the next level card. You repeat this till you reach the final boss battle and the winner is declared. However, it is not all plain sailing. There are bonus and penalty tokens littered around the levels which can help or hinder you. For example, if you land on a penalty token you might have to switch which hand you are drawing with, or if you land on a bonus space you could get to throw a banana token on another player's board and next round they are forced to draw round it. Also cleverly hidden pixies sometimes pop up in levels and if you draw through them you get to do a bonus level. In these bonus levels you have to flick a counter onto a special board, and depending on where it lands you could get from one to seven points (which can be a real game changer)
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed Loony Quest and I liked the video-game artwork, which makes the game look so interesting and exciting. I really enjoyed it when you had to do the penalty tokens effects, like holding your pen with only your thumb and your little finger. It was especially funny when someone had to do more than one of these and, almost inevitably, completely flunked the level. The game comes with seven different worlds, and all but the final have six levels in them. This means that the game has a huge amount of replay ability. Although the game is really good, the rules are pretty badly written and you figure most of it out by common sense rather than reading the rule book. Loony Quest I think would definitely appeal to kids seven years old and up, because it is quite hard to do in some places and when you start giving each other penalties the younger children might not like it. Overall I would give Loony Quest a 7/10 and I think that it deserves a place on your shelf.
Loony Quest is a fun video-game inspired drawing game where you have to quest through different levels in order to collect the most experience points. At the start of a round, you place a level card in a holder in the centre. Each person then takes a transparent sheet on which they have to draw - by eye - various dots, circles and lines, with the aim of hitting, encircling and joining the different places on the level card in front of them. After 30 seconds everyone (finished or not) takes it in turns to place their sheet on top of the level card and see how they've done. You get a certain amount of points for completing objectives (like joining up two points on the level card) and minus points if you have touched any traps or monsters. Once everyone has calculated their score, you move on to the next level card. You repeat this till you reach the final boss battle and the winner is declared. However, it is not all plain sailing. There are bonus and penalty tokens littered around the levels which can help or hinder you. For example, if you land on a penalty token you might have to switch which hand you are drawing with, or if you land on a bonus space you could get to throw a banana token on another player's board and next round they are forced to draw round it. Also cleverly hidden pixies sometimes pop up in levels and if you draw through them you get to do a bonus level. In these bonus levels you have to flick a counter onto a special board, and depending on where it lands you could get from one to seven points (which can be a real game changer)
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed Loony Quest and I liked the video-game artwork, which makes the game look so interesting and exciting. I really enjoyed it when you had to do the penalty tokens effects, like holding your pen with only your thumb and your little finger. It was especially funny when someone had to do more than one of these and, almost inevitably, completely flunked the level. The game comes with seven different worlds, and all but the final have six levels in them. This means that the game has a huge amount of replay ability. Although the game is really good, the rules are pretty badly written and you figure most of it out by common sense rather than reading the rule book. Loony Quest I think would definitely appeal to kids seven years old and up, because it is quite hard to do in some places and when you start giving each other penalties the younger children might not like it. Overall I would give Loony Quest a 7/10 and I think that it deserves a place on your shelf.
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