Full Circle
And another one finished! I'm on a role today! Why spend time on your thesis when you can BLOW it by playing generic old games!? Exactly.I have sent off the Big Evil Dragon in a heartwarming, yet asinine and unbelievably short ending. Really, don't play this game for the ending, cos it's not worth the 11 hours or so.
Discworld is over, so it's on to part 2, which I will probably start tomorrow.
It's a decent enough point'n'clicker. If you're into this kind of game you should try it out. I think this game's from 1995, which makes it one of the earliest PSX games, and you can really tell by the look of it. The graphics are rather outdated, and the Midi is quite awful. The SNES had better sound in general.
However, the game really has a great sense of humor, although you probably have to be in the mood for it. It has a very dry wit and it's filled to the brim with endless strings of puns (you have to admire how the writers were able to create dozens of puns for practically EVERY situation), but if you're not into that kind of silly and absurd humor, you'd better look somewhere else.
Thing is, the game doesn't take itself seriously at all, which is a very good thing, but unfortunately this trend is continued in the nature of the puzzles, making some of the things you have to do really quite obscure. Even if you've read the books, there's still a lot of stuff in here that doesn't really make any sense whatsoever, which is funny in its own way, but it makes solving puzzles more of a chore than it should be.
Also, although the game is divided in 4 Acts, you spend the entire time walking around the same environments, constantly backtracking to see if something has changed, and if there are new items to be acquired.
So before long the game starts to drag on (hohoho) and you'd be forgiven to lose interest here and there. The splendid humour and hilarious voice acting remain throughout though. It has to be said that in spite of the lousy midi, the voice samples and sound effects are Crystal Clear, and really very well done.
One for the fans (of either Discworld or PnC's) -> 7.2
Just for comparison, I rated Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars with an 8.
posted by Ingen! @ 9:46 PM
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