Aidyn Chronicles is alright, but fails achieve what THQ set out to accomplish for the N64 audience. The game is huge. There are tons of details in the world that help to give it some life. For instance in the first large castle/city I counted over 20 different types of tables with random objects (all different) on them. The graphics aren't very good even with the expansion. The battle engine plays alot like Quest 64. The story is average, but better than Quest. I think the reviews at the time this game was released were harsh and unfair. The media overhyped it by talking about it being the RPG N64 owners were waiting for. They showed amazing screenshots and praised it's looks. When the game was released they mauled the poor thing. For instance Game Informer gave it a 0.5 / 10.0. It was the writter Kayo's (might be misspelled) first review and he claimed he felt like destroying a game for his first review and Aidyn Chronicles was it! The game should have gotten a 7.0 / 10.0. For it's time it was alright. Ogre Battle 64 was the best RPG on the N64 in my opinion.

Plenty to read in the game.  The developers definitely crammed it with lots of text which I felt was one of the good things about the game.  The game world is also quite large.  But it suffers from too many other problems.  Largely, the game is just weak sauce for an RPG.  Combat was meh, graphics were meh, characters were meh, story was meh, etc...   But we N64 gamers tolerated it more so than enjoyed it simply out of lack of RPG options on the console.

I personally would have rated it a 4.0 .  After the RPG haven that was the SNES, going to Aidyn Chronicles on the N64 just felt like getting slapped by a sandpaper glove.  And that's to say nothing of the RPG experiences found on other consoles of the generation.

That depends on your definition of good.  Its certainly amazing in its own way, lots of detail.

I'm still trying to finnish it 12 years later.  I'm lost currently, the world is somewhat huge and the narrative is not exactly cohesive.

It kind of reminds me of  original EQ, without the MMO aspect of course.