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The Book of Fistandantalus Reviews
Author:
Andrew Wilson
Date: 2000
ADRIFT 3.8
Reviewed by David Welbourn
ADRIFT 3.8 games tend to be forgotten and unreviewed, so I
thought I'd give this one a try. Unfortunately, this game should probably remain
forgotten. Let's run through a quick checklist:
Story? You're looking for a book of magic, but who you are or why you want it
isn't explained. It was owned by the great mage Fistandantalus, but you learn
almost nothing about him either except that he died of a curse about 1000 years
ago. What kind of guy he was, what kind of magic he did, who knows?
Writing? Pretty poor with lots of misspellings. "There are many butiful
tapastrys lineing the walls." Nuff said.
Setting? Well, the prologue said you were entering a tower, but there's no going
up or down in this game. The rooms are connected end-to-end like a winding
snake, so you have to go through a secret passage and several bedrooms before
you can reach the kitchen. Almost no furnishings except old beds, trunks, and
notes. Nothing whatsoever to suggest a maguc user lived here.
NPCs? One. You can ask him about the book, but that seems to be it. Although
he's the descendant of the mage and caretaker of the "tower", he seems to have
no objection to adventurers walking through the place.
Puzzles? One half-a-puzzle, I guess, since it can be solved by NOT doing
something, so you might solve it without even noticing.
Anything else? Winning doesn't end the game. The author apologizes that he
didn't know how to code some things that he wanted to do. Yeah, I kinda noticed
that, thanks.
In sum: it's a vague, nearly-illiterate, boring, linear, uneventful,
unchallenging, poorly coded game. But at least someone's played and reviewed it
now, so you don't have to!
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