This was my second playthrough, and I really don't know why am I waiting so long. I did this game some 12-15 years ago and I loved it. First saw back in 1993-4 some TV game show and instantly sucked me in. The Big mysterious Hand, the disappearing world, and the female heroine. But the first time it was really hard because of two reason: first you need to do magic tricks, and mostly no hints what magic you really need. Second, the ingredients are pretty cryptic. Toadstool means really a stool of a frog, smell of eggs means a lump of sulfur, windy woof = gnarlybark, and so on. Someone who not speak on very high level in english its HELL. Also you can pick tremendous objects you really doesnt need. I never really like all of these red herrings. But its very welcome in 1993 you are not using command words, or tree of sentences. And the protagonist is a very lovable character (maybe the first female, idk). Somebody said you cannot sie at all, its not true, and the autosave system works pretty lazy, so u need to save often. The game ha sa light hearted, and humorous atmosphere, really not suit the other two Kyrandia game, I think this game only had the title: The Hand of Fate back than, and just later put this Book Two nonsense. Its really short game, 10 hours with thinking, maybe 2 if you know what you need to do. And second playthrough (I know english much better) I realized U only have the opportunity to do one single spell in each location, so its not that hard at all. U just need to used to it how adventure games works. I really forget the second half of the game, the Volcania part is a big (and not very good) joke, actually If you like me, and search for everywhere you save for the whole charade. All in all this game has some silly moves, but its in my heart together with Monkey Island 2, Fate of Atlantis, Leisure Suit Larry 6, King Quest 6, Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen.
