Niborius on 7/7/2013 at 13:11

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Took me a while to finish the mission (About 3 hours), but here's a quick review:

The Good:
- Amazing graphics and a great atmosphere
- Lots of custom content
- A great attention to background details in the level design
- A good story that wasn't too simple and not too hard to follow

The Bad:
- I played on Hard (Traveler it is called if I remember correctly) and the objective to find all the secrets got a bit annoying when I had to search through each room at least three times
- I got stuck quite a lot, in my opinion some items are hidden too well

Conclusion:
A very fun and interesting FM. Definitely one of my favorites. Good job! :thumb:

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Niborius on 11/7/2013 at 15:45

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I take that back then! So, Explorer (Sorry I got it wrong!) is basically the hardest difficulty?

Thor on 17/11/2013 at 23:48

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Hey, Sensut! Just got around to playing this (since Fen briefly mentioned how he found it so good) and man I was surprised at the quality! Really fun, didn't get stuck (just my level of difficulty, I guess, though I can recall at least one swtich that was hidden in a slightly silly place that didn't make much sense) and I felt like I found so much (and I did...) but only ended up finding 8 out of 15 secrets and 2000-something out of 4500-something loot! WHAT! But I did all the other objectives and optional objectives, and explored every nook of the map. How did I miss so much!

Lovely adventure mission, though. The music, the atmosphere, the graphics and it had a little comic feel to it too with the 2 weird musicians. Only I found it maybe too clean. I dunno why, cause I saw there's truly a lot of stuff all about the place. Maybe it's the clean textures themselves, maybe it's a bit about that it also felt a little too big, like the Lost City bit, while my favorite part of the mission, it was I think too simple in architecture relative to the extreemly large size it had. But I didn't really mind that much.

Other tings I liked about this mission:
- scripting - never gets me bored or anything, when some blasted piece of ceiling almost falls on me every other minute!
- little puzzle elements here and there - mostly just some items needed to be found and placed in the right spots, but it's nice and fun, since they're not hard to find.
- infinitely rejuvenating fountains - now there's something every real adventure game usually has! Great! I never liked spending healing potions too much in fear of not having them when I truly need them.
- permanately dead undead when u smash 'em up [except those losers that Garrett wouldn't even comment on (neither would I - seriously, it took me less than 20 seconds from reading their readable to already find a solution to a problem that apparently wouldn't let them move on... anyway)] - that's something that really frustrated me in a lot of missions back in the day. That and that they were the same ugly penguin-footed models. I love how they looked here! Were those new? Can't say that I remember seeing a lot of these models before. They look pretty darn good.

So, thanks for the mission and bye bye.

Thor on 18/11/2013 at 09:18

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Heh, I actually don't think I would wanna play it in the b&w version, because the colors here just looked so great, and I could really feel the daylight in the above-ground bits of the mission. T'was cool.

Sensut on 19/11/2013 at 08:10

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OK, here is:

CRYPTIC REALMS v.1.19 Black & White - for New Dark only - 75,1 MB