Zork: Grand Inquisitor

I find this to be one of my favorite FPP adventure games. The puzzles are challenging but are mostly quite fair. The level designs are superb also. You get to journey across many different, wonderful environments that are unique to Zork universe. Last but not least, I find that the graphics are still gorgeous in the current age, and more so when one considers they were done about 20 years ago!

Fun to play, great graphics and really funny.

Funny, before woke invaded our lives. Shut the door, turn off the world and play before humanity explodes due to overpopulation

Back in the 90s, when I was very young, I loved point-and-click adventure games. At different times, I was obsessed with Myst and Riven, Sam & Max Hit The Road, and The Dig. This was despite the fact that I never beat one without help from a walkthrough. But now that I'm older, I admit I find their charms much harder to see under their very-common flaws. In the last decade or so, I've played some of the supposed classics of the genre that I missed when they came out, like Grim Fandango and Broken Sword, and I've found my patience with pixel-hunting, and with the obtuse moon-logic so common in their puzzles, is now very short. I played the first half of Zork: Grand Inquisitor for the first time just before writing this review, and sadly I found that it too suffers fairly seriously from these problems. So badly, in fact, that I just stopped playing. Now, to be fair, the game isn't terrible. Many of the puzzles are quite reasonable, and I mostly enjoy its characters and sense of humour (although some of the jokes are now quite dated, and others would have been groan-worthy even in the 90s). The environments are what I enjoyed most. They're artfully rendered and combined with a pretty decent soundtrack, they create a good sense of atmosphere, which has always been the thing I loved most about adventure games. This is probably one of the better adventure games from its time. But it's far from the best. And for me, now, these strengths just weren't enough to overcome its weaknesses. I'd been very hopeful going in given its current average score of 4.6/5, but now I have to wonder if most reviewers are basing their scores off of their rose-tinted memories of playing the game when much younger. I'm sure if I'd played this back when I was ten years old, I'd have loved it then too. If you still think the classic adventure games are as fresh today as they were in '97, you might love this. Otherwise, you should probably play something else.

Holy Shit! Lots of recent reviews stating this is a great game, here were are in the USA, facing the danger this game presens in real time....