| PDAMill Arvale Short Tales Review Author: | | | | open-ended, quest-style gameplay. Keep playing |
| Dungeons and Dragons, the very first role-playing | | | | and relax with a carefully thought-out, simplified |
| game, was also the first game to be | | | | scoring system. Explore beautifully painted, stylish |
| programmed on a computer. At those times, a | | | | locations with hundreds of detailed maps. Meet |
| computer was not a small box connected to a | | | | friendly characters and mendacious monsters. |
| monitor or a TV. It was a room full of huge steel | | | | Enjoy the difference between night and day with |
| cabinets. These computers could only display text; | | | | unique available actions. Take multiple side quests, |
| they had nothing like billion color displays or | | | | experience unique atmospheres, feel the |
| surround sound of today's PCs. Yet, role-playing | | | | ambience of the sound track. Have fun talking to |
| games were still available in text-only mode. Just | | | | the characters (some of them are hilarious!) Can't |
| imagine gameplay where a computer would print | | | | get enough of it? Discover the special fifth |
| something like "You are in a dark room." You | | | | character for even more Tales! Download your |
| would type "Light lantern with match", and the | | | | free trial copy at: and start playing now! You are |
| computer would reply with "This room appears to | | | | guaranteed to have hours of fun and |
| be a library. There's a table with a crystal ball in | | | | entertainment with Arvale: Short Tales. |
| the center. You also see bookshelves, ladder, and | | | | Compatible devices list Windows Mobile 6.0, |
| a door leading east." Was it fun to play? Sure, at | | | | Windows Mobile 5.0, Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC |
| the time, it was! Luckily, modern role-playing | | | | 2002 ACER: n300 Series, n30, n50, n20 and |
| games are very far from those of the early days | | | | others ASUS: A626, A636, A639, P505, P525, |
| of computers. Today's computer fits in the palm | | | | P535 and others Cingular: 8125, 8525 Dell: Axim |
| of your hand, and today's role-playing game | | | | X3, X5, X50, X50v, X51v and others Dopod: |
| displays pictures and animations, and produces | | | | Dopod 838 Pro, Dopod 686, Dopod 699, Dopod |
| realistic sounds to make the process even more | | | | 828, Dopod 900, Dopod P100, Dopod N800, etc. |
| fun! | | | | Eten: E-Ten G500+, E-Ten M600+, E-TEN Glofiish, |
| Arvale: Short Tales by Handster is a great | | | | Eten M700, etc. HP: hw68xx series, hw69xx |
| modern role-playing game. It's small enough to fit | | | | series, hx21xx series, hx24xx series, hx29xx |
| even into the busiest person's PDA, while sports | | | | series and others HTC: TyTN, Wizard, Prophet, |
| crisp graphics and a dynamic sound track. Unlike | | | | Hermes, Artemis, Universal, Herald, P3300, P3600, |
| simpler Pocket PC based role-playing games, | | | | P4350, P3350, X7500, Athena IMATE: i-mate |
| Arvale: Short Tales includes not one but four | | | | JASJAM, i-mate JAMin, i-mate PDA-N, i-mate |
| unique stories with four unique characters to | | | | K-JAM, i-mate JASJAR and others O2: XDA series |
| enjoy. (Spoiler: there is a hidden fifth character | | | | T-Mobile: MDA series QTek: 9000, 9100, 9600, |
| somewhere in the game!) You'll get endless hours | | | | S100, S110, S200, G100, 2020, 9090 Other |
| of fun and entertainment with free exploration of | | | | Windows Mobile Powered Devices. |