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Hype: The Time Quest | |
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Cover for the original 1999 English language release. | |
Developer(s) | Ubi Soft Montreal |
Publisher(s) | Ubi Soft |
Director(s) | Benoit Galarneau |
Designer(s) | Alain Tascan Patrice Désilets Martin Raymond |
Writer(s) | Phillipe Debay Guillome Lemee |
Platform(s) | Windows, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2 |
Release | Windows Game Boy Color
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Genre(s) | Adventure, role-playing |
Hype: The Time Quest is an adventurevideo game developed by Ubi Soft Montreal and published by Ubi Soft and was released under the Playmobil Interactive series of products. The game, released in the year 1999 along with Alex Builds His Farm (1999), is based on the medievalcastle toy series from Playmobil. The U.S. version of the Game Boy Color version was supposed to be released in June 2000,[5] but was delayed for over a year. The game revolves around Hype, a 22-year-old knight in the service of King Taskan IV, following a quest through time to return to his own time in order to save the kingdom from the evil black knight Barnak. Hype's adventures therefore take place in the same kingdom throughout four different periods of its history. The game was directed by Alain Tascan and featured thirty-two different voice actors,[6] as well as original music by Robbi Finkel.
- 1Plot and setting
Plot and setting[edit]
The story begins during King Taskan IV's reign, following the end of a civil war. Hype, the champion of the kingdom, is being rewarded for his loyalty and valor with the powerful Sword of Peace. However, during the ceremony a mysterious black knight riding a dragon suddenly appears out of nowhere. The knight steps to the King and demands the throne. Hype steps before the knight and attempts to confront him, but the black knight is too strong and Hype is defeated. Using a powerful magic, the black knight then turns Hype into a stone statue and sends him into the past to get rid of him.
Two hundred years earlier, Hype's statue appears in the courtyard of a young apprentice magician: Gogoud.
After many failed attempts, Gogoud manages to restore Hype to life. Hype recovers his memory and quickly explains his ordeal with the black knight and how he must return to his own time to protect his king, take revenge and marry his betrothed, Vibe. The wizard agrees to help Hype and guide him on his quest, and mentions that a jewel currently held by the king Tascan I himself could give the power to travel through time.
The story follows Hype throughout his travel through time to go back to his original era.
Era I[edit]
The era I is sunny and it looks to be summer. But a war is currently raging between the Templars of the Monastery and Taskan I, king of Torras. Hype successfully manages to infiltrate the fortress using a secret passage through the sewers and meet with the king to ask for the jewel, only to learn that the magical gem has already been stolen by the monastery. Mistaken for a templar, Hype is sent to the oubliettes. There he meets with Talbot, an actual templar from the monastery, who agrees to help him by opening the door of the monastery in exchange for his freedom. After successfuly stealing the keys of the executioner and freeing the templar, Hype manages to exit the undeads-infested oubliettes only to be stopped by Granslak, a guard so tall his body spreads over two floors. Granslak wields a flail and shield and has the habit of constantly bursting in a maniacal laughter. After defeating him, Hype takes the first dragon's breastplate as a trophy and leaves the fortress towards the Monastery. The door to the Monastery is opened as promised but Talbot has turned on him and set up an ambush to steal the breastplate. Hype defeats the templar and his allies, then reaches the top of the highest tower of the monastery where the royal jewel is located, guarded by an invincible and overly fat monk called Mhasse. Hype manages to defeat Mhasse despite his invincibility by throwing him off balance and making him fall down the tower to get him stuck in the ground, and recovers the jewel. Hype quickly learns that the jewel cannot be used without first being charged with power from the sky. By offering the breastplate to the dragon Zatila, he earns his lifelong loyalty and both fly off. Once the jewel is charged, Hype travels in time.
Era II[edit]
Hype ends up in era II, which takes place during a dark night. Gogoud' manor is invaded by soldiers from the Laboratories. Hype learns from Gogoud's diary that he has been kidnapped by the leader of the Laboratories, a bearded dwarf magician called Rajoth. Hype infiltrates the laboratories, confronts and kills Rajoth and frees the magicians he was holding prisoners. Gogoud tells Hype that the Jewel only allows him to advance of a small leap through time each time, meaning that he will have to find another jewel, the jewel of virtue, for a new time leap. Sadly the jewel is part of the treasure of the Field of Courage, the new colosseum of Torras that can only be entered with a signed pass. Gogoud advises Hype to see with the brigands to get a fake one. The brigands' leader, a woman named Karon, tells Hype that she is willing to help him in exchange for a favor. Hype has to go back in time and tell the truth to Karon's father, who happens to be the king's architect : the king does not plan on paying him for all his work, so he needs to build a hidden tunnel to the treasure room of the Field of Courage, so that Karon and her brigands can steal the gold there. Hype goes back to Karon but there is one last obstacle before they can safely enter the treasure room : a huge three-headed dragon. After defeating the first two heads that attack simultaneously, and the much smarter third head afterwards, Hype obtains the jewel and a new armor then exits the Field of Courage. The jewel is charged the same way as in the previous era, and Hype travels through time again.
Era III[edit]
The era III is sunny again, but this time it looks to be set in autumn. A civil war has burst out between the Field of Courage, the laboratories and the king. on his way Hype meets Nolhin, daughter of Karon, who has taken the place of her mother as leader of the brigands. In Torras Hype infiltrates the fortress again and meets with the King Taskan III himself, who is surrounded by two familiar faces from the era II : the king's councelor is Enost, a wizard that Hype freed from the laboratories alongside Gogoud, and the protector of his son, the young Taskan IV, is Senekal, the gatekeeper of the Field of Courage, now a simple monk after going through various hardships. Hype learns from them that he actually is the cause of the civil war, since as his legend grew so did the legend of the dark knight, and as a result the people of Torras have lost faith in their king, and to redeem himself as well as secure the future of the kingdom he has to go back through time to win Senekal's weapons and then bring them back to him in this era in the monastery, where the young king will be safe. After doing this task, Hype meets with Gogoud to know where the next jewel may be. Gogoud mentions the forgotten city, an area out of time and space, that can be accessed from a dolmen in the forest. Hype manages to activate the portal and enter the city, and meets with Zatila there. The dragon is actually the keeper of the jewel, and will only give it to Hype if he can defeats the dark part of himself, the antithesis of virtue. Hype is victorious again, and learns that the dark knight is a fallen god called Barnak. He and Zatila go on to charge the jewel and Hype travels through time again.
The almanac quest[edit]
However the trip to the era IV is short lived : the dark knight knew of Hype's coming-back thanks to the almanacs of the monastery, the fortress and the laboratories, and had set up an ambush with his black guards. Hype escapes back in the past and following Gogoud and Nolhin's advice, proceeds to infiltrate and steal the almanacs to falsify the information regarding his story within, so that Barnak may think him dead. While trying to get the almanac of the fortress, Hype learns that the king's wizard, Enost, has betrayed him. He is actually trying to prepare the coming of the dark night in his black tower only accessible from the sky, having taken the almanac with him. With cunning and the help of Zatila, Hype manages to retrieve all almanacs, falsify his legend before giving them to Nolhin to put them back at their original location. Hype travels through time again to era IV.
Era IV[edit]
Upon returning to his own time, Hype finds his world heavily guarded by the black knight's large army enforcing his law, unnecessary areas such as the Monastery, Laboratories, and the Field of Courage closed off, and a land that has become desolate and destroyed with a fiery sky above, as if the dark knight's influence had also extended to the natural elements. Gogoud is also dead of old age between the two eras, leaving Hype on his own. Thanks to an advertisement in Gogoud manor's hidden room, Hype goes to Torras' inn where he is finally reunited with his betrothed Vibe. Vibe has been secretly forming an army to begin an uprising against Barnak, but cannot try anything as long as the king and queen and the leader of the royal guards are held prisoners in the oubliettes. After doing it, the ghost of Gogoud appears to tell Hype that Barnak is actually intending to use a dark spell during the upcoming eclipse that will allow him to extend his domination forever and that to stop him Hype needs to meet with the gods themselves in the forgotten city. Hype meets with a god that gives him a last jewel, and also mentions one last step needed to counter Barnak's spell : Retrieving all battle standards from across the four eras. Hype manages to charge the jewel, recover the standards, then goes on to confront the black knight on top of his tower. Upon arrival though, Barnak's black dragon slaugthers Zatila, leaving Hype unable to leave the tower anymore. Hype eventually defeats Enost, the black dragon and their master, and counters the spell.
As the land is finally restored to its former beauty, Gogoud tells tales of the peace returning to the land, and Vibe and Hype living happily for the rest of their lives.
Reception[edit]
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The Game Boy Color and PC versions received 'favorable' reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[13][14]Nintendo Power gave its GBC version a score of four stars out of five, over six months before its U.S. release date.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ abLopez, Vincent (December 9, 1999). 'Hype: The Time Quest (PC)'. IGN. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^'Hype: The Time Quest - Game Boy Color'. IGN. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^'Hype: The Time Quest (2001) Game Boy Color release dates'. MobyGames. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^'Hype: The Time Quest (2001) PlayStation 2 release dates'. MobyGames. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^Harris, Craig (May 19, 2000). 'Hype: The Time Quest (GBC; Preview)'. IGN. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^Daniel B. (2003). 'Hype: The Time Quest (PC)'. Mr. Bill's Adventureland.
- ^Wolpaw, Erik (April 2000). 'Not Zelda, Not Bad (Hype: The Time Quest Review)'(PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 189. p. 84. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^Olafson, Peter (January 3, 2000). 'Hype: The Time Quest Review for PC on GamePro.com'. GamePro. Archived from the original on February 9, 2005. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^Wolpaw, Erik (December 2, 1999). 'Hype - The Time Quest Review (PC)'. GameSpot. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^Madigan, Jamie (December 18, 1999). 'Hype: The Time Quest Review (PC)'. GameSpy. Archived from the original on February 15, 2002. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^Lafferty, Michael (December 30, 1999). 'Hype: The Time Quest Review - PC'. GameZone. Archived from the original on January 15, 2006. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^ ab'Hype: The Time Quest'. Nintendo Power. Vol. 140. January 2001. p. 131.
- ^ ab'Hype: The Time Quest for Game Boy Color'. GameRankings. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^ ab'Hype: The Time Quest for PC'. GameRankings. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
External links[edit]
- Hype: The Time Quest on IMDb
- Hype: The Time Quest at MobyGames
- Hype: The Time Quest (Game Boy Color) at MobyGames
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