Tales of the Traveling Swordsman

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Tales of the Traveling Swordsman
by Mike Snyder

2006

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(based on 24 ratings)
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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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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Charming And Well-Written, January 27, 2008

by IcyChoc (New Zealand)

>EXAMINE ME
You 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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