Torment A straight conversion from the deservedly successful Spectrum adventure, Fantasia Diamond is guaranteed to give 464 users a pretty rough time over the next few months. It is a fiendishly difficult graphic adventure which owes a lot to Melbourne House's classic Hobbitm that it features independent characters ‘each with his own life and personality and who will help or hinder you depending on how they feel at the time'. I think I'm right in saying that this is the first adventure to be released for this micro that features these self determinant beings and for that
reason alone it should do well. For those who are unfamiliar with this type of game you will be faced with baffling hours of watching people arriving or going south for no apparent reason. It should be obvious that this is pretty sophisticated stuff and the vocabulary range and language phrasing are also highly advanced with the option of typing in full sentences of commands. Graphics are very large and colourful, although a bit square and blocky, and they draw very very quickly indeed. The plot is suitably unlikely and I'm not going to repeat it - suffice to say you have to retrieve the diamond. It would be doing this adventure an injustice to pretend that I've come anywhere near solving it or know all its secrets as I'm sure there are weeks, months even, of mental torment ahead for me. Very highly recommended.  
Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly
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