Lure of the Temptress (1992)

The medieval setting, characters, retro graphics and large number of various commands and actions are very cool. However, this game shows its age and flawed mechanics. It can be beaten very quickly if you know what to do. However, dialogue is invariably timed, and you cannot read what someone just told you a second time without reloading a save and reconversing with them. Then, there's the ever infamous wandering character phenomenon. You will simply tell your character to talk to someone, use something, etc. and he will wander around the screen like a brainless twit as the game's fickle programming tries to get him to exactly the right spot. When other characters are involved, it looks like a scene from the Three freaking Stooges. My wife would glance my way frequently as I shouted, "Quit screwing around!" at my computer screen multiple times. Also, the music in this game consists of literally one to two notes. If you're looking for good old retro point-and-click adventure games to play, don't bother with this one unless you're some kind of collector/completionist.

Terrible pathfinding and other characters constantly blocking you and speaking at you make this game virtually unplayable.

Warm nostalgic feelings will quickly evaporate after a few minutes of clunky gameplay and unsatisfactory solutions to "puzzles". Thankfully I found a walkthrough online so that I could quickly reach the anticlimactic end.

For an exploration adventure game, they really did not need to make all the npcs have collision detection and force your character to map around them only to forget what he was tasked to do in the first place. There are a lot of small peeves I have with this game but that's the major one. I'm trying to walk around town which is painstaking enough with the pace of the character, but bumping into townies just makes things worse.

the game is cute, but does not work properly...