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Good start., January 7, 2012When we are playing and reviewing this game, we must remember that Hartnell created it as a example game for he's book; "Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer", published at 1983. Naturally it means that game versatility and magnitude are limited so, that source is readable even for peoples who are starting to learn program these things.
Hartnell does not waste time to explain why game character is where he happens to be, instead player is placed to the castle after simple shopping period. After this, mission is to find out of the cave, while finding treasures and killing few monsters.
Eventhough i do not recommend this game for experienced text-adventurers, this could be a good start for newbies in this genre. Player does not need to wonder complex word combinations, instead everything possible, is possible with one letter commands, such as "P" for PICK UP, "F" for FIGHT or "N" as "NORTH".
Treasures and monsters are placed in random locations of the castle in each new game. This does not give much of replay value, since goal of the game (how to get out of there) is excatly same in each game.
However, this game is good example to see from where text-adventures has been developed.
It is actually hard to rate this game, since it's original goal was not to be as good text-adventure as possible, but to be a example game which is easy to explain for peoples who wants to create text-adventures.
If you have played these games more than few times, then Werewolfs and Wandered does not give you much pleasure, unless you want to play a simple game while you are having a coffee break at work.
For peoples who are just starting to play these games, or maybe wants to get familiar for this genre, i suggest this one purely because of it's simplicity, but also got to remember them that this is not something for what compare more advanced games which are good to try out after few periods with this game.
Peoples who might want to learn how to create simple text-adventures (and maybe more complex ones at later), this is also a great start.
