Posted on: September 11, 2011
jmfritz1
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barely mediocre adventure game ruined by emulator...
I love adventure games. I don't care if they're old, new, point and click, keyboard or typeface, I'll give them a shot and probably end up with something good to say about them. Lure of the Temptress was a short, so-so game with a slightly different layout than a typical SCUMM game. The basic idea of this game is that you are Diermot, a handsome, buff blonde dude who was recently incarcerated in the dungeon of the Skorl, an orc-like race who have most recently taken over a small, insignificant town at the demand of their manipulative sorceress leader, Seleena. Once you've escaped and successfully released some little jester boy who'll follow you until you go consult the local dragon (whose in a cave on the edge of town: small world, right?), you help the more tenacious of the townsfolk overthrow Seleena. The gameplay is mostly point and click with a few different steps to it (you can "tell" somebody to "go into a room and pull a switch"). There is also a dialogue system you get to play with, but it's nowhere near is perfected as the ones you see from Lucasarts, the Ankh series, or even the last couple Space Quest games. The game, being of Revolution studios, incorporates a "virtual theater" type of setup where the NPCs are walking around and interacting with each other in scripted exchanges. I like this concept, and I especially like the fact that they play these over and over after a while so you don't accidentally miss something relevant (although, most of them aren't important to the game progression). The story itself seems alot like one from an 80s/90s fantasy film (i.e. Willow, Dragonslayer, etc.): a young man must help overthrow an ultimate evil by meeting and working with several interesting characters along the way, only considerably less complex and based entirely in a very small town. For instance, I think it's pretty laughable how an ancient dragon who knows all AND the final resting place of an ancient deity are a stone throw away from the grocery store and a couple pubs, but I'll allow it. The dialogue seems like it was imperfectly translated from a different language because of how bland the lines sounded which shocked me further when I found out that Revolution was a British based company. Most of the game's puzzles involve getting an item so you can trade it for something owned by somebody else and so on. Most of these puzzles shouldn't be too complex for veteran adventure gamers (although I'm pretty veteran and I had to look up the walkthrough once or twice) and there are two arcade combat sequences as a breakaway from the adventure game format which I thought were pretty fun (alot like the Nukem Dukem robots bit from Space Quest 3, only easier). Now the part that I really hated about playing this wasn't really the game itself so much as the glitches that came up as a result of the emulator that was added to the game. This caused a few glitches that either made me restart the game (a minor inconvenience considering how short the game is) or just stop playing the GOG download. At about the halfway mark, I was supposed to find a character (Mallin) and get a book he had stolen from some monks, but I couldn't seem to find him ANYWHERE. At first, I thought this was a negative aspect of the "virtual theater," but I finally found that Mallin had somehow been trapped in a walking in motion type of glitch just off screen in one of the alleys, so I couldn't interact with him. Also, near the very end, you're supposed to get a boy to lure a guard into a wine cellar so the guard can drink himself to death. The problem is that, although the boy does interact with guard, the guard doesn't follow him back to the cellar like he's supposed to and you basically have to sneak past the guard, which the game doesn't seem to want to acknowledge. Overall, if you really want to play this game (there are better options), I'd recommend that you download the version on the SCUMMVM website which is also free. I only hope that Beneath the Steel Sky download doesn't have the same glitches.
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