Lure of the Temptress (1992)

This game is pretty good for it's age and genre. The story, while not deep, is interesting enough to keep you questing to the next part. If you like old adventure games this is worth a play. I enjoyed it. Of course there are some minor flaws. Save often, as my game locked up at least 5 times during a dialogue. The title doesn't seem to fit the game either. It was probably just to sell the game to hormonal teens :).

Lure turned out to be too boring even for a game of its time. The sounds would have driven me crazy if they weren't so hilariously bad. Unless you are nostalgically in love with everything point-and-click, give this one a pass and try Beneath a Steel Sky.

Overall it's not a bad game for the era, but the common music was dull and felt like a broken record. The main character spends a good deal of time moving around trying to get into position to talk with other characters, that I find annoying. Some scenes I had to redo because there is sequence of events that had to happen. However it was entertaining.

Once you know what to do the game can take less than 4 hours to play through, and it has some issues such as fiddly pathing which can make some puzzles frustrating for no good reason. However, the game is innovative in that it is an early example of a game that has NPCs that walk about the town going about their business, something that would become a staple in later RPGs but was very rare in games of this age. Nice artwork for its time, too.

When I found out this game was made by the same team that made Beneath A Steel Sky I was hopeful. Unfortunately this is far below the quality of BASS. Not only that, but this game came out the same year as King's Quest VI (1992) another medieval themed fantasy game. King's Quest VI is one of the greatest adventure games of all time. This game is much more like the older more archaic King's Quest games. The ones from the 80's with very little in the way of sound or music, had bland graphics, and too much trial and error style gameplay. Really the noises in this game are so grating, the gameplay is awkward. It's not a good game. But it's free, you might find some enjoyment. But even something free costs you precious time you could be playing better games.