Play: 6/10 Yeah, no, I was hoping I could get into text adventures honing in on and exploiting the newer technology for the petty RNG aspect of the genre, rather than the fun cleverness and witty, satisfying puzzles of it.... sad. Like, my least favorite part of Colossal Cave was the Dwarf--that aspect surely wasn't my favorite part that I wished new technology would add more of... and yet it seems both RPGs and text adventures went that way... Not that surprising, since I know tabletop gaming has a similar story: more features, more tweaking possible, and more challenge as time goes on. Then there's me, wanting eternal sameness in comfy zomes. Welp, onward and upward, as with every art form I grow to appreciate! I did really like the staff's attack, I'll say.

Feel: 6/10 Maybe I'm just bitter because it took me a while to be able to emulate this, and then when I did, it was bland as heck. Commodore 64 and BBC Micro really not grabbing me so far compared to the earlier Apple II, Atari 2600, and of course arcade games. The darn Balrog... And it's silly, is there a limit to the amount of points you can get? Or could I keep killing in the maze? I didn't really have a drive to find out... Some really clever stuff in this, and unique for sure, but moving on..

Attachment: 5/10 If it weren't clear, moving on. There are too many special text adventures for this one to stand out, and it's time for graphic ones for this year anyway...