Even in 1996, this town was achingly dull, and looking at it for too long is likely to give anyone a headache. After hypnotizing players and stealing their credit card numbers, Camelot plunks both Finn and Uglydragon into what is easily the most insipid hometown anywhere. Actually, the dragon is named Steiner, and he's the friend (not pet, mind you) of Finn, your run-of-the-mill 14-year-old who's just aching to get thrown into a series of events beyond his control. Which brings us to your resident glutton for punishment and his latest foray into the sunny fields of masochistic self-inflicted punishment, a toasty little microwaveable coaster entitled Beyond the Beyond.Īfter a creaky introductory FMV sequence that explains little but does manage admirably to convey the nature of the awful character design the game has going for it, players are immediately blitzkrieged with a psychedelic kaleidoscope of death centerpieced by a hideously drawn busty young lass cradling a bombed-out dragon that looks for all the world like the reptilian equivalent of Keith Richards. By 2000, now-defunct websites were demanding donations in the thousands of dollars before they would even consider forcing one of their reviewers to play through and review the stagnant tripe Camelot continued to issue forth from its rancid bowels. Sadly, by the time 1996 rolled around, this definition had by and large ceased to exist as such. Square upped the ante in the sixteen bit days, these games would pass as playable under the definition of most RPG enthusiasts. This fabulous bastion of quality game development had knocked off a heap of RPGs for various Sega systems, games that were, at least contemporaneously speaking, adequate that is to say, by the standards that existed before companies like Square and.

Once upon a time, there was a company named Camelot.

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