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About the StoryThis game takes place in the world of Zork, in and near the twin towns of Pheebor and Borphee, but hundreds of years before the events of the Zork series. You play as a young adventurer who plans to find the treasure of the Demon reputed to be hidden somewhere in the nearby woods. Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: Unknown License: Freeware Development System: Inform 6 Baf's Guide ID: 2778 IFID: ZCODE-0-050619-511A TUID: gqr7l2vg8us35h4u |
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For your Zork nostalgia dollar, the game both hits and misses, not unlike Star Trek: Enterprise. The hungus, easily my favourite NPC in the game, scores a bullseye by deftly combining humour, plot exposition, and a puzzle into one neat package. Instead of zorkmids, which won't be minted until about 1600 years later, we have zoons, another borrowing from Beyond Zork. There is some clever business with the grues involving how they perceive the world, but I was less happy with the portrayal of grues as a people with a primitive culture, as if they were Morlocks. A more obvious miss is an accidental mention of the Flathead mountains long before there were any Flatheads; the coffee shop and a CD-like disk are anachronistic. Some of the events in Hades might contradict what we think we know about Yoruk, who won't show up for centuries.
-- David Welbourn
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v.4: 29-Oct-2019 09:12 -
David Welbourn
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v.3: 17-Apr-2013 07:58 - Edward Lacey Changed external review links | |
v.2: 29-Apr-2008 15:14 - Tom Hudson Changed download links | |
v.1: 29-Sep-2007 20:49 - IFDB
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