★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ THE SMIRKING HORROR (c) WOW SOFTWARE ★ |
THE SMIRKING HORROR (Amstrad Action) |
Not being very academic (I know the feeling! - Balg), you just couldn't believe the news that you'd been accepted by the best college in America - PUE Tech! With the grades you received you would have been lucky to get in at Leeds University but. with all the disappearances, suicides and other bizarre occurrences that have recently been happening at PUE Tech, they were a bit short on applications and you got lucky!
The first term has flown by and suicides have increased The locals are reporting more strange disturbances and in recent weeks the atmosphere has teen very tense This doesn't reallytrouble you much - you spend little time at the college at night anyway, and even less in the day so yon don't think about it. You'll be disappointed if you expect it [Smirking] Unfortunately, you have spent all term partying and it's finally caught up with you. You've got to get an assignment written by tomorrow or else you're in real trouble! To make matters worse, there's a raging blizzard outside... Don't worry folks! The Balg hasn't lost his sanity to Cthulhu and started reviewing old Infocom games again! Smirking Honor, by Jason Davis, is a parody of one of ray favourite adventures, Lurking Honor. Whilst Jason's previous game, Yarkon Blues, was amusing and received a good review in AA70, the Balg had reservations about Smirking how could GAC possibly hope to imitace an Infocom? However, although nowhere near as large or technically impressive as Lurking, Smirking has its own attractions. The map. in places, is very similar to the original - there's the eternal corridor, great dome, alchemy department (complete with requisite pentagram) and the good old terminal labs Many of the puzzles initially appear the same as in Lurking - the creature still lives in the dome and the floor cleaner (Arthur) still won't let you pass. (But at least they are solved differently.) In fact, parts of the game are so similar to the original that it's a good job that Infocom is no longer around, else WoW might have found itself in legal trouble! Amusing in places and atmospheric in others, the game is well thought out with logical puzzles. As with many GAC games, it suffers from minor parser problems in some locations (you have to stab something and wedge something else but the verbs 'hit' and 'jam' are not accepted This can lead to a misleading response), but the Balg didn't have too many troubles. Overall. Smirking is a good game, well worth the asking price, you'll be disappointed if you expect it to be on a par with Lurking Horror, but it's actually quite good... Just watch out for Cthulhu! AA |
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Page créée en 087 millisecondes et consultée 2664 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |