Northpole

by John Blythe

2020
Adventuron

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- dawnmarymac, December 28, 2023

- Edo, January 16, 2021 (last edited on August 17, 2023)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A complex Adventuron puzzle in Northpole, December 26, 2020
Related reviews: about 1 hour

This is perhaps the most complex Adventuron game I've seen.

You play as a falsely-accused elf who has to find 7 missing presents. There are two main areas (an outside one and an inside one) as well as an endgame area. There are numerous NPCs, as well.

This game has its own share of Sierra-type-logic (such as there being 4 different sharp-bladed instruments, each of which can only be used on one thing) and adventuron implementation issues (the biggest being error messages not disambiguating between default statements for correct commands on non-interesting present items and correct commands with non-present items).

Fortunately, there are helpful hints in every room. Even with that, though, I had to comb through the itch pages (I found three different ones: the regular page, the submission page, and some comments in the community page for the jam) to finish off the game. Art's very good, and fortunately no puzzles require the art, for people who are visually impaired.

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- Zape, December 22, 2020 (last edited on December 23, 2020)


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