Who remembers this one?
I was gifted this game shortly after I got my first PC, so it might have been the first full version (not shareware/demo) PC game that I owned.
I had all but forgotten about it until a year ago, when Tijn mentioned it to me on IRC, before dosgameclub was even a thing. This prompted me to dredge up some memories and eventually to take another look at the game.
It had been over 15 years since I had played it, but there were a few things which still stood out strongly in my memory:
– The music being lovely. One of the best soundtracks I’ve heard in a game.
– The controls felt clumsy, which was especially frustrating when trying to move around in a dangerous place, or racing to complete a time-sensitive task.
– The graphics being charming. The design of the different characters and the shapes of the buildings and environment were all delightful.
– The maps being confusing. At the time I felt like there were too many places to go, and I didn’t know where I should be going. This feeling seemed to get worse as the game went on.
It was actually this lack of progress, and finding one area too frustrating to pass (the desert island), that I abandoned it. In retrospect I had only completed about 1/4 of the game.
Meanwhile, our friend rnlf acquired his own a boxed copy of the game, and made a few gameplay videos of it, on youtube, albeit without getting much further than I did.
It would be nice to return to this game again, as I’m sure others will have some fond (and not so fond) memories of it. 🙂
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