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Popular Computing Weekly | Home Computing Weekly |
VOLCANIC Nemesis, whose Arnold Blackwood adventures have acquired something of a cult following, have launched another adventure in the series titled Angelique. It offers the near unique opportunity to play an adventure from the perspective of gasp, more outlandish than trolls and elves... a woman. As Angelique, your task is to survive trials and tribulations and meet up with Arnold with whom you have, well something or other anyway. The authors claim that the fact that you are female means more in this game than merely your name - it is germane to the solution of many of the problems. In practice - as far as I got anyway - this tends to mean that a fairly shallow male view of women's emotions, responses and interests pervades. Angelique is dressed in black leather skirt, black stockings, silk blouse, etc, like a caricature of a French resistance woman - she is also much given to coyness. However, there is much to recommend about the adventure; after all, the fact that Angelique comes over with any personality at all even if it is a stereotype is a step up from the usual adventure. Similarly, the solution to many of the problems is deliciously ludicrous - the very first problem of how to get out of the volcano being a case in point. The screen layout is a lesson to others as ever proving that text adventures don't have to look dull, so 1 recommend it highly. But if you are a woman you may find that you have to grit your teeth a lot. Popular Computing Weekly |
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