lonzboy on 15/2/2003 at 19:22
...but this one seems almost like...cheating the contest rules to me. Remember that drawing "My wife and my mother-in-law"? Looking at it, you see either an old hag, or a delicate featured woman with a hat looking away from you. Once you see both though, you can't NOT see both. Likewise, the four parts make one mission. Part 1 IS NOT a mission. Part 2 I can finish in less than 60 seconds. Also not a mission. It just seems like an end-run around the size limitation rule. It has many cool aspects to it, but it should have been one larger mission. I'll bet after the contest, it will be. I'm not in the contest, so it's no big deal to me, but I'm not sure I wouldn't be a bit peaved at this one if I had entered.
Please don't take the offensive with me for saying what I think of it. It's just one man's opinion.:erg:
smithpd on 16/2/2003 at 04:30
I encountered every bug mentioned here.
I never could get the camvator to work properly. It stopped at the church window and played music endlessly.
At the end of mission 3, I got the portal to work but only occasionally and for no clear reason. I tried many things. Sometimes putting a body on it worked. Most of the time it didn't, and nothing happened. Sometimes taking a body off made it work. I tried standing on it with and with out bodies, releasing and throwing apes and Nikole on it, stacking bodies (up to 4) on it, and I got no consistent results. On a few occasions Father Hirvakia came out and did his spiel. On several occasions, the good Father just paced back and forth in the tunnel with his ape friends and none came out.
The scene in which Nikole gets poisoned by a dart was also quite variable. She got hit with the dart about half the time. If I came up the ladder fast, most of the time she didn't get hit. I did three variants. Nikole gets poisoned; Nikole does not get poisoned - kill the ape and get stuck with a broken sword. Nikole does not get poisoned - kill Nikole first and then the ape. In the latter case, the note still says she is poisoned but living. :)
I agree completely with lonzboy that the four mission pack is an end run round the size limitation, and I think that such things should not be permitted in future contests. The four are obviously one, artifically split, and do not stand by themselves.
All that notwithstanding, I think this mission is a very good if buggy attempt, and I really enjoyed many aspects of it. I liked the music and the visual special efects. I hope the author debugs it, embellishes it with more content, AI, and decoration, and puts it out as a single mission, with beta testing, of course. :)
Garrett's Shadow on 12/1/2010 at 14:53
All I have to say is, is, is..... :erm:
Don't know what to say! :erg:
Cept that, after all that, saving the little blonde piece just to have her basically sell me her freakin sword for a whopping TWO HUNDRED gold before takin a powder, and THEN it ends LIKE THAT? :mad:
Well, that may be "characters in limbo", BUT, another word for limbo is "Purgatory"! ;)
I aint too happy with this one - I feel that William should have shelved this one for when he can do it justice (cuz it IS worth doing so!) and done something else for the contest! :tsktsk:
Random_Taffer on 13/1/2010 at 02:57
I always enjoyed this little mini-campaign. I remember the ending scared the crap out of me, but it might have been because this was one of the first Fan Missions I played.
Had I played it more recently- now that I'm more familiar with all of the little tricks we as authors do- it probably wouldn't have as big of an effect on me.
downwinder on 5/5/2017 at 20:44
great news ^
glad to hear its one now
meyou123 on 17/4/2018 at 02:39
Well it does NOT WORK FOR ME I am STILL having problems with that stupid portal on part 3! I have her in my arms and step up on the pedastal near the ramp after knocking out everyone and nothing happens! The FM Author really needs to fix this.And I am Using new dark loader.
fortuni on 17/4/2018 at 03:20
It works, Iv'e just replayed it!
You need to place dead Apebeast on the pedestal and wait a short while whilst the pillars re-arrange and a yellow flame appears inside the pillars, then you enter the 4 pillars to finish mission 3.
downwinder on 17/4/2018 at 03:22
looks like link died :( how do i get updated version?
