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The Legend of Kyrandia (Book One)

A few big flaws, otherwise excellent!

This game is one of the best Adventure games I've played. Most games in the genre I've played have really stupid/absurd puzzles that you could never reasonably expect a person to figure out, but this game mostly didn't have that problem with a couple exceptions. One big problem with this game is navigating. There's no in-game map and there are certain parts of the game, a cave specifically, where you pretty much have to draw a map or look one up. If you like doing that sort of thing, that's cool, but other than getting confused about where to go and where you've been it can get extremely tedious to backtrack to get needed items or to find your way around. There is a lot of wasted time spent backtracking and walking through areas with nothing really in them. This could easily be fixed with a map that would allow the player to fast-travel to previous areas or at least a function where you can skip watching the character walk across screens to locations you've already been (like in Monkey Island). This biggest flaw with this game that I know of is that there are two ways that you can screw yourself over making the game unbeatable. The first one, which is what made me have to stop playing for now, is to do with apples. There are 2 or 3 apples in the entire game and you HAVE to have one for a part of the game later on. If you play this, MAKE SURE you keep at least one apple (and not just the core). The other one, which I've only read of, is that when you come to an ocean/beach with a couple of Pegasus statues, if you proceed without the necessary items (I'd advice just looking them up once you think you have all of them just to make sure) you can get stuck in the next area with no passage back. I wish I had more room to discuss everything, but those were important to mention to anyone playing it for the first time. In my opinion, this game has great voice-acting, very funny dialogue, great music, beautiful art, and mostly decent gameplay. I recommend picking it up.