|
Magnetic Scroll's last adventure game (before they designed the inferior
adventure/RPG hybrid The Legacy: Realm of Terror for Microprose) may be the best
game they produced. It's filled with memorable characters, creative and challenging
puzzles, and excellent windows-based interface (refined from Collection 1) that
gives the player both the power of direct interaction with the parser and
menu-based creation of sentences (similar to Legend's early games). You are none
other than Alice, the hapless heroine of Lewis Carroll's immortalized "Through
The Looking Glass", who inadvertently found herself in a fascinating fantasy world
populated by talking animals and objects. In your quest to find your way home, you
will interact with many well-written characters that truly capture the spirit of
the novel, and solve many puzzles that are challenging yet all very logical. The
game's many time- and location- based puzzles will truly force you to think in
three-dimensions and be acutely aware of how long it takes to perform actions,
and will give you a great sense of satisfaction when you figure them out. The
shrinking/enlarging puzzle remains one of the most memorable puzzles of all time. |
