The Incompetence Of A Journey Beyond

Greetings and salutations, fellow players of the popular Minecraft server Wynncraft, the MMORPG.
I am Torpid (Mentally or physically inactive, lethargic.) T. (Short for Totally Stupid) Torpedo (A underwater explosive weapon similar to a missile) and i am going to explain to you all how completely incompetent the quest "A Journey Beyond" is.

Let's begin in a way similar to my review of Enzan's Brother. The title of the quest is completely pointless, it only suggests a journey, which is basically a different word for quest. This doesnt expand the world of Wynncraft in any way at all, unlike Enzan's Brother.

So, the quest begins in Detlas, which i actually approve of. I would be greatly upset if this quest took place in a far off area. This quest already does so much wrong, if it made you go through effort to merely start it, i would throw a riot.

Anyway, the quest includes 3 NPCs, which is far too many. This quest is not centered around dialogue at all, and as such, these NPCs cant display any sort of personality. Each and every one of them is a bland piece of bread (Not literally, they are human.) and as such have no personality. The only difference in any of them is Aledar isnt really completely boring and bland, instead he is extremely annoying, obnoxious, and rude.

With this number of NPCs, you cant develop their characters in any way. Especially if you kill 2/3 of them off halfway through the quest. And then completely ignore them in the second part. Aside from their character, these NPCs are still flawed. Their designs are extremely distracting and confusing, once again with the exception of Aledar, who actually has a good design. But again his character is far from good.

I would like to take this moment to remind anybody reading that i am not attacking or insulting the creators of this quest, this is merely my opinion of the product itself.

Continuing, once we talk to Elphaba, she brings us into the room behind her. And we receive a 10-pound sack of exposition. This is the complete opposite of what Enzan's Brother was doing. In that quest they expertly explain and educate the player without even using exposition, you merely understand it anyway. Which is honestly beautiful.

Lucio then literally blows a hole in the wall to leave, which is a CRIME. He does fix it, but this is making the characters unlikable as soon as we meet them. Which is not a good sign at all.

After going to the cave, you spend all this time merely to fail. The quest spends far too much time at this cave just to explain you need to be purified. This could have been subtly explained, instead you need to sit through the fight and then leave. The quest then forces you to walk the entire distance to the Blacksmith, who then gives you a 15-pound bag of exposition.

After heading to the roots of corruption and killing the Mangled Progeny, Aledar says "Wow, I'm impressed <playername>. I honestly thought you would need my help." Which is saying that Aledar was doubting the player's ability. So only a few minutes into the quest, and that's 2/3 characters that have done something unlikable.

After gaining access to the Silent Expanse, Elphaba then just kills several completely passive mobs for no reason. If the small change of a red name was displayed with the bugs, this wouldnt matter. But instead, one of the main NPCs does something completely unnecessary and cruel. So that's all 3 NPCs who have done something unlikable. Probably only around 15 minutes into the quest.

Slightly later, Elphaba is tricked into thinking her liver has been removed. This is unnecessarily morbid and clearly a waste of potential. What if in Detlas when the quest was first started, Elphaba says that she wants to go to the Silent Expanse because she is searching for somebody close to her, like her mother or father? Then at this point, the trick could be that Elphaba thinks that she sees her parents, and runs off. Getting lured to her death.

Instead of a morbid moment, it would be a sad end to a character we wanted to see more of.

Lucio then gets tricked himself, and instead of it being a simple trick, it instead floods the chat of the player. Which is extremely annoying to the player. "Extremely annoying" Isnt something you want a part of your quest to be described as.

Then, probably the most satisfying part of the quest is when Aledar is eaten by a giant worm. Finally youre free of him. This of course doesnt actually improve the quest.

After acquiring the remains of those annoying NPCs, you reach Aledar in the digestive system of the worm, who for no reason makes you go backwards to get a potion. I seriously dont understand why this part of the quest exists. It made the play time of the quest go up by 10 seconds, so it wasnt for play time. It wasnt a puzzle or parkour, it was literally just an NPC you needed to right click on.

You remember when i explained how brilliant Enzan's Brother was, because it subtly explained how the game works? This quest isnt subtle. You are given obvious instruction. Aledar explains exactly how the escort section of the game works. He perfectly predicts which monsters will attack who, which makes no sense. Without these instructions, if the player was just thrown into the escort mission, they would easily be able to figure out which mobs attack who. These instructions were seriously unnecessary.

You then reach the town and the quest is completed.

This is a frustrating, overly-long, underdeveloped quest and it made a very bad first impression for a really good update. It had so much potential for blowing our minds with the introduction to the Silent Expanse.

I rate this quest a 2/10.
This concludes the review, i wish you all a good day, and thank you for reading.

Yours truly, Torpid (Mentally or physically inactive, lethargic.) T. (Short for Totally Stupid) Torpedo (A underwater explosive weapon similar to a missile)

 

Oh my lord

 

you failed to mention the absolute absurdity of having to escort aledar in the cart, as most people will have numerous healing potions, or a spell that could heal him.

 

While i definitely agree, i left out this plot hole because the fact that there is a liquid that can instantly heal stab wounds, cuts, explosions, burns, and your lungs being full of water from drowning instantly doesnt make any sense either

 

See, I quite like this quest, and yet I can't really argue with anything you said... I do think having to fetch his potion was just a way to show the extent of his injuries, so it does kinda make sense.