Review – Chex Quest HD (Switch)

Chex Quest is a humorous roguelike game in which players must fight through a series of mazes and dungeons to collect the ingredients needed to cook up Cheez Whiz, their favorite food. It was one of the first games made with an official license from General Mills, who developed it as part of its cereal promotion tie-in
Chex Quest HD has been released on PC for nearly 20 years but now finally makes its way onto Nintendo Switch. The port runs pretty well even if some graphical effects are missing or not quite up to snuff when compared against more modern releases, but it’s still worth playing because there isn’t much else available like this on Nintendo Switch right now.,
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Chex Quest is a retro-style platformer that’s been around for quite some time. It was originally released on the SNES in 1993, and has since been ported to PC, PS2, GameCube, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, PlayStation 3 and iOS.

The cost of nostalgia is an ever-changing variable that always appears to be too costly. We sometimes pay by repurchasing our youth at an exorbitant price, which we gladly do since we believe we’ll get the same high as we did when we were younger. After all, most people would laugh at spending ten dollars on Animaniacs Happy Meal toys, but I wanted the whole set, and leaving out Mindy and Buttons is like leaving out the secret ingredient in Coca-Cola (desperation).

Sometimes we pay the price by discovering that nostalgia, like all good things, matures and tastes awful if consumed in the same manner. Go ahead and re-watch your favorite program from the 1980s and 1990s: there’s so much wrong with it today that you’ll turn it off and hope no one notices you trying to relive your childhood with the Paw Paw Bears. If you’re very fortunate, you may be able to mix those two emotions and invest money in something that subsequently disappoints you in a unique manner. That is how you download Chex Quest HD, my dear friends.

This guy is prepared, no, PUMPED, to let you down.

Chex Quest HD is now a home run and a thinkpiece unto itself both a pure camp piece and a fascinating glimpse into the growth of advertising. The original Chex Quest, released in 1996, was a complete Doom mod that was put onto CDs and inserted inside boxes of the very disliked cereal Chex. Let’s be clear: I really adore Chex. I don’t care whether it’s Chex Mix or Corn Chex; I adore Chex and will happily eat a whole box of Corn Chex without milk, bowl, or dignity. Anyway, the plot of Chex Quest (and Chex Quest HD) is similarly insane: a species of aliens known as the Flemoids wants to eradicate eating across the cosmos, and the only way to stop them is to zap them with a highly customized weapon known as a Zorcher.

We had no meaningful narrative other than what was on the CD cover at first, but now we know the Flemoids are from another dimension and must be returned without our wonderful nibbles. You must lead one of six Chex Mix-inspired protagonists through the perils of five hazardous planets, fight the Flemoids, and rescue eating for good. For example, this is a game that was created in 1996, generated a direct sequel, a distant third sequel, and, eventually, a remake almost twenty-five years later. The legacy is perplexing, but also quite cool.

It’s as if the Burger King Kids Club was reincarnated as a snack.

Chex Quest HD is a first-person shooter without any real bullets or violence, as you may have suspected from the Doom link. Instead, you have a limited number of weapons that fire red light or a spoon. Attack the Flemoids with these items until they vanish, then continue ahead. Things should be simple from a goal standpoint: you need to acquire the keys to open specific doors, and then make it to the end stage objective and turn a switch to complete the level. Get your performance assessed and ranked, then go to the next step. Isn’t it simple?

From a strictly observational approach, Chex Quest HD was made with a great deal of love and devotion. The Unreal Engine was used to reconstruct the whole game from the ground up, allowing for a considerably wider range of light, shadow, depth, and complexity than was possible in the original. The audio and sound effects have been given a more stereo approach with higher clarity, but they’re mostly faithful to the original, like the Zorcher’s zapping sounds and the Flemoids’ astonished grunts when you fight back.

I was pleasantly pleased to discover how much effort went into creating a universe, a tale, and even voices for all of the many characters. The opening cutscene, which dynamically changes the reveal of the “hero” for everyone depending on who you choose, is amusing and worth watching at least a couple of times to notice the details, such as the panel of military personnel helming the intergalactic safety group, which is made up of snack foods.

Isn’t this just the pinnacle of character design?

It’s also worth noting that, like the original, Chex Quest HD looks to be oriented at youngsters, so keep that in mind. Players’ perceptions of what this means may be warped since the original was a Doom mod, and the first Chex Quest could be modified in the same manner. My memories are partly tainted since I had access to cheat codes and tweaks that made the game both simpler and more graphic, which was funny to me as a teenager.

Chex Quest HD, on the other hand, is designed with a younger audience in mind. The various characters’ remarks are often expositional and perceptively useful, however they may irritate any video game player with a smidgeon of common sense (example: “I’ve discovered the blue key!”). Now I only need to locate a blue door…”). Though there are obvious nods to the original, the game must stand on its own two feet today, which means enticing youngsters, not just adults who enjoyed the first, to play it again and over again.

Okay, these kinds of hidden messages are actually amusing.

Because this isn’t Chex Quest, let’s face it. This is Chex Quest HD, which is a completely separate game. Not only do you have side-to-side arrow key and spacebar shooting, but you also have multi-directional aiming. While the levels are inspired, they are quite distinct and demand a lot more from players. The first game may be completed in 30 minutes at most, but this one will take a little less than an hour. It may not seem like much, but each minute spent exploring and surviving a level means a lot to the development team. From the introduction of co-op and versus levels to the fact that the pretzel robot throws a different shadow than the floating wheat sorceress, there were measures made to make this experience broader, more rich, and more entertaining than the previous. These particulars should be enthralling and titillating, something that will truly get the audience excited!

The requirements for passing through this door could not be more clearer.

Instead, I’m left in a bind, and it’s because all of these tweaks don’t make me a better shooter. The remake has introduced a slew of new issues, not least of which being the lack of a back button during the character pick screen (the button exists, but it can’t be selected on the Nintendo Switch). More complex levels require more digging about, although most of the extra room is simply that: space.

There are more places to stroll, but there aren’t necessarily more things to do. In the first level, you may investigate all of the spacecraft, but only one contains anything useful; otherwise, you’ll be staring at a dashboard and panel that do nothing. The second level, a warehouse stage, now contains a complex puzzle of shifting platforms and high-reach places that chews up your time and, frankly, slows down the game. The effort to add more richness to the scenery – tight roads, blind corners, and more vegetation – just slows down the game’s progression rather than adding a fresh sense of amazement.

In addition, Chex Quest HD offers a perplexing improvement to foes that seems worse than the original. While I appreciate the increased saturation and balance to make the game “more detailed,” the Flemoids don’t seem dangerous or even interesting: they’re merely green snot clumps, while their earlier pixelated appearance gave them a literal edgier sense. The robotic Flemoids aren’t any better, and the last boss (a giant, wall-sized Flemoid) is so washed out and uninteresting that I almost died before realizing it was a fight. It didn’t visually engage me, and it made the tedious effort of firing through numerous waves of villains seem like a duty rather than a reward.

Rinse, zap, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse

What irritates me the most is that it has the ultimate flaw: broken gameplay that mixes and matches flaws from 90s shooters with issues that are entirely unique to this game. There are no checkpoints since the levels are so short, which is excellent except for the regularity with which you die attempting to figure out the new layout. It was common to have to restart because you were inundated by Flemoids and all you had was a spoon. However, if you have charges for the Zorcher, I discovered that there are no range constraints, so you may start picking them off from any distance as long as you can see the Flemoid.

Even the spoon has a larger range than the sprite suggests, so feel free to try to complete the game with just your “melee” weapon and save your actual bullets for when the monster appears. And be ready to have fun rushing through those levels, since each character, although having no distinctions other than speaking parts and shadows, is responsible for unlocking each level. So, if you wanted to play the game as Fred like I did, but then hear what Shane the cheese puff had to say about level three, go grinding, since Chex Quest HD has no easy ways.

Much of my hatred and dissatisfaction stems from how much I loved the original, which is greatly impacted by nostalgia and recollections, as I indicated at the outset. Chex Quest HD isn’t the original, but it’s still nice that it’s exclusive to the Nintendo Switch. Chex Quest HD is a strong beginner shooter with some self-aware comedy, nice visuals, and a high amount of replayability for both single and multiplayer if you can separate the entities. However, it is far from ideal, and some of the shortcomings are apparent to say the least.

If you really want to play the original, go ahead and download it: it’s free and fits with your memory far better. If you want to impose a game on your children because “I used to play this when I was a kid!” then purchase Chex Quest HD and ready to apologize later. But if you or a family member are inquisitive about what the heck caused this to happen, then strap up and plunge in: things are about to get wet.

Chex Quest HD is now available on Nintendo Switch and PC.

On the Nintendo Switch, a review was conducted.

The publisher sent a copy of Chex Quest HD.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Chex Quest HD good?

A: Chex Quest HD is a good game.

How long is Chex Quest HD?

A: Chex Quest HD is 6 hours, 30 minutes long.

Is Chex Quest HD Multiplayer?

A: I am not able to answer this particular question.