Ratings and Reviews by Denk

This is a well done PunyInform game by Garry Francis in his usual style I would say. Lots of puzzles, minimal story, though an interesting setting I would say, without revealing too much.

You are searching for a pirate's treasure in an old mansion and you will encounter a lot of pirate stuff and apparently some magical stuff too (or very advanced technology which I do not think).

I managed to solve the puzzles myself except for the riddle. It might be my English limitations - I never seem to get riddles in IF, be it Infocom or any other game. Otherwise, the puzzles were satisfying to solve and there were some surprises along the way.

A fun game in Garry's usual style. If you like solving other games by Garry, you will probably like this one too.

This review is for the first completable version, in contrast to the original competition version which could not be completed. Still, it was made during the Iron Chief competition where games are made in a very short time frame. So the version I played (1st of June acc. to the file name) could use a bit more pollish but the puzzles did not really suffer from this.

The player is given the job of cleaning up in several time zones where animals and persons have somehow been displaced in time and space. For that reason you have a special device. I will try not to give anymore spoilers here, except within spoiler tags.

The writing is short but still interesting. Objects you encounter has no use, so simply focus on the task. I was curious to see how the device was going to work in this completable version. This is the sort of game where things are usually a little more complicated than expected which is nice so it wasn't too straight forward. So figuring out exactly how the device works and what can be done with it is the big puzzle. However, it might be that the game can be solved in a bit more boring way, though the author seems to have been preventing that at least partly:

Overall, a very satisfying puzzle game!

This was well written and well done in many ways. I always feel wrong about rating such personal "games" as that would feel like treating it as pure entertainment. It was more educational but also sad to learn about how children may cope with losing a parent. Nor have I a lot to say right now, just want to support the author for doing stuff like this.

I played this freeware 1980 Eamon game on Eamon Remastered (a browser based implementation of Eamon). This game is star wars themed, not really caring about trademarks at the time. This was a very typical Eamon game at the time: Mainly hack'n'slash (using blasters and light sabres) randomized combat, a few simple objectives and with just enough locations to make it challenging to find your way without drawing a map. The difficulty is too easy to be challenging but a nice diversion for relaxation if you love Eamon.

I should only recommend this for those who like plowing through the simpler Eamon games out of curiousity. EDIT: I do, so thank you to Keith Dechant for adding it to Eamon Remastered :)

This is a fairly short but well done classic text adventure fitted into the memory of a Commodore 64 / emulator. I played the "play online"-version and except for the initial load and when saving/loading your progress, the responses were almost instant.

• The story is simple but fine enough for this type of "classic" text adventure: Go figure out what the latin test will be about, then copy the necessary text from the text book somewhere in the school. Along you will need to solve several puzzles.
• Of course, some games back in the days had better stories which would have improved this game some. Also, there are several latin phrases but I never learned latin so for me that was kind of wasted, though I could of course had translated it online if I bothered. But it was good enough as it was.

• At times the game was too helpful as opening an item or door often simply required e.g. OPEN DOOR when holding the right item, rather than specifying with the INSERT command. Speaking of commands, all verbs are given when typing COMMANDS so technically, this is a "limited parser"-game so no fighting the parser luckily!

  So despite the game being too easy, this was a charming little nostalgic piece :)