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Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: October 1, 2006 Current Version: 1.3 License: Freeware Development System: Hugo Forgiveness Rating: Merciful Baf's Guide ID: 2944 IFID: HUGO-25-54-06-09-29-06 TUID: fsujzka1ua0h5att |
Awards
4th Place - 12th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2006)
Nominee, Best Game; Winner, Best Story; Nominee, Best Puzzles; Nominee, Best Individual PC - 2006 XYZZY Awards
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Charming And Well-Written, January 27, 2008You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good man respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are a rumor throughout the land.
The player's description sums this game up: you, the strong and silent swordsman, must save the helpless inhabitants of a fishing village from a tyrant. The writing is excellent, if a little too poetic, and the plot is straightforward -- until the ending, of course. The puzzles are sensible, with solutions that make perfect sense (although not always as well clued as I would like). I don't recall ever having to guess the verb for anything: almost all possible synonyms were accounted for and implemented.
Despite the brilliant game mechanics, I did not enjoy the game as much as I did more badly coded games. Why, I do not know. Maybe the fact that the plot was to do with a curse got to me, or I disliked the logic of the puzzles. However, it is an excellent game and I recommend it, even though I personally did not enjoy it that much.
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