Zork: Grand Inquisitor

This comedic FMV twist on the old text adventure Zork phenomenon is dated, corny, whimsical, and short unless you get stuck overthinking a puzzle. Always fun and I love to revisit it. So many memorable lines and kooky mechanics.

This is one of my all time fave games and I have been waiting for this to show up on GOG. All the Zork games are fun, but the humour in this game is outstanding and well worth the price.

Zork: Grand Inquisitor is my favorite Zork game. It has all the quirky, silly sense of humor that attracted me to games in the first place. As a child of the 90's, I prefer the graphic interface over text. While it certain restricts the range of actions one can take in the game, it still provides the player with some fun surprises when using the wrong inventory items or spells on objects. The acting and storytelling are both very fine.

I just want to say, i was about 14 I think when i played a demo of this game, had it from a demos cd, they were popular those days in a country that didnt really have access to video games, i never really had the full version. Now i got it from gog and playing it, i have no words, thank you !!! It has the same cheesy humor and ambience i loved in the demo.

After the serious Nemesis clearly left some people longing for a comedic Zork, Grand Inquisitor does bring back the humor that was "lost" but doesn't bring a meaningful game along too. There is plenty of humor particularly from your sidekick/lamp voiced by Micheal McKean. However, the plot is very thin and possibly contradictory with both other games in the series and itself most bizarrely. While the puzzles are mostly straightforward, the logic for why you do almost anything can be nonexistent. In a game with as little plot as this one, it just makes those puzzles feel like pure padding. What I found most disappointing though is how poorly developed the areas are. They generally only have two or three puzzles and might be made up of only one or two "points". This isn't really a game you explore as much as you fast travel between the handful of locations.