I quite enjoyed Larry 1, 2 and 3. Two was probably my favourite, because – of the three installments thus far, it was closest to an actual adventure game with an adventure game plot. It didn’t focus that much on the women and I thought it was better for it.
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Quest For Glory 2 Review: A Tale Of Two Quest for Glories
I’ve never been big on RPG games. Part of the problem, I think, is that I got born into a world where RPG games meant very strict min-maxing. If I go back and think about my time with the gold box games, it boiled down to you having to roll
Continue readingThe Dig Review: In Another Galaxy Far, Far Away…
Every once in a while, an experience comes along that’s so completely sublime that it totally subverts everything around it. And it only happens once every generation or so. Gaming generations are pretty short, so the game before this that did anything remotely like it was Ultima 4, a game
Continue readingKing’s Quest One: Quest for the Crown Review: Type “Greywolfe” backward three times
Playing King’s Quest 1 in the modern age is supremely weird. The game presents in 160×200, a resolution that would seem crazy in this day and age, but which was revolutionary at the time. It sports sixteen colours, moving sprites, PC speaker music and a fairly non-linear quest. For an
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