Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

["Adam Atkinson" <ghira@mistral.co.uk>]

On 07-Sep-99 20:23:21, Graham Nelson said:

>> Um. What I mean is that there are a few areas in some Phoenix games
>> where you aren't allowed to save. This is so that you can't do some of
>> the puzzles by brute force. "undo" should probably not be allowed in
>> these areas either.

>This is not restricted to Phoenix games.  In "Spellbreaker", when
>assaying the cubes in the vault an attempt to save results in a
>message like "That spell will not work here.".

is "undo" also barred? I don't remember if Infocom games knew "undo"

>Ingeniously, it also rigs what seem to be random events so that
>if you don't choose the right strategy, you can't win just by luck.

That I remember. :-)

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