THE SAGA ...
Saga ...
1991 Psychaedelic Hedgehog
Software
The fate of this program has developed not too successfully.
And our Western hackers from the heart "worked" on it. So even
in the title game and the date of its withdrawal in
light can not be sure until
end. That version, which after a long search came to me in
hands (only because of
Aid Inforkoma!) lost for the
his travels in Russia not
only a screensaver, but more
part of the graphics. But even in this
deplorable state program
deserves attention.
Thus, the game begins ... Hooray!
At this time you are not thrown into prison, not tied to a pole
in smelly dirty shack, and even
not suspended from slings confused somewhere in the tree
canopy. Everything is much simpler and, at first glance, banal:
you find yourself on the street of a small provincial town
Envesa (Anvas). Place a set of stalls, tents and stridently
painted signs to the horror resembles our home with you
city. From such mundane want to run on all four sides, and the
program from the first seconds of the game readily allows
do it - from the start screen, you can move it to
all four sides. And can not burden yourself unnecessarily
length of input. The most frequently used commands (such
as North, South, East, West,
Up, Down, Take, Inventory, Exam,
Look, and a few others) program understands with the same
letter, and to enter all other words
whether the verb or other part
speech, rather the first four
letters. Formula offers traditional command: verb + noun.
The brevity of entries with an excess of
offset by the verbosity of
description of locations. Sometimes a story
on any corner of takes
almost the entire game screen. And the language of the program
did not quite traditional - often it goes into a real slang.
For these two reasons for transfer away
plenty of time - and very handy
is the fact that the game is
virtually unrestricted.
A few words about the plot. The point seems to be the case,
that By that occurred many years ago and caused her to crash
curvature of space and time somewhere vanished without a trace
half of men inhabiting
these lands. Those of them who do not
disappeared, so different from the
conventional predstaleniya of
males that have not gone away,
apparently, only because it is
of its otherness. As
why disaster had not touched
Women, too, remains a mystery
as the fact that they are in the intervening years have not
turned in Amazons (in the standard science fiction is
necessarily the last). Here in this here "raspberry patch" and
you have to act, trying to bring back the lives of these Lands
'full circle' and not forgetting the opportunity to provide his
peace in old age.
As already mentioned, the graphics
in the available versions of the program remains very little.
Three graphical display in two dozen locations - far better
value for the beginning of the nineties years. And there is
reason to suppose that in the initial state game had a lot more
pictures. In support of this conclusion is the presence and
capabilities enable / disable graphics commands GRAP / WORD.
However, it should be noted that the quality and speed drawing
graphics leave much to be desired - maybe that's what
"inspired" hackers on its removal?
Gaming space program is not too extensive - almost
more than twenty locations - and
around it is not difficult, even for a beginner. But
nevertheless, it is desirable to map, at least of those
considerations that on it will be possible to specify the
location of found items. In nine cases out of ten of your round
as shillings, eyes themselves rush
to the object, which can
take. Just do not miss
everything at once: despite the very
solid ability to carry heavy loads at once carry away the
corpse of a dwarf (dwarwen corpse), Tapestry (tapestry), jade
statuette (jade statue), many smaller things like the sword
(Sword), key (key), pick
(Lock-pick), glue (some glue),
and yes even the street urchins
(Street urchin) will bargain
a daunting task.
Another piece of advice regarding
subjects. All of them are checked
team EXAM, and although the data
obtained here are not always
overloaded with information, they should not be neglected. Check
all you can - this is one of
keys for success in the game "The Saga ..."!
Characters in the program even more exotic than the
subjects. C women, perhaps, to understand
will be easier. As befits the weaker sex, more than anything
else they like gifts, and principal as a gift must be pure
gloss and complete uselessness. In this and
Build your relationship with
women. Try, for example,
to give a crystal ball (crystall ball) Vicky (Vicky) and
ourselves 'll see what happens.
Another advantage of this program is women touching their
attachment to their locations - they are usually anywhere from
them do not go away, and if is suddenly going to happen, then
after a second or two they will again be at its usual place.
With representatives of the male
sex, everything is much worse.
Some of them, frankly,
also did not budge: just try to tear away from the bar, a fat
troll (meaty troll) or wake up the sleeping soundly Robin Pad
(Robin Pud). But other "equally attractive
men "like Harry Hippie (Harry the Hippy), sorcerer Pipkin
(Pipkin the wizard) and elf Spada (gnome Spud) throughout run
hither you, appearing not to
the most appropriate moments, showing the disgusting manners and
complete lack of education.
Find common ground with these two types of male
oh, how individuals is not easy, and we must
Does it look? ..
The game, at first glance seems like a simple (if you do not
pay attention to the slang and verbosity). But, after spending
on her for several hours, beating almost all location, having
found a bunch of useful and useless items, someone
of the players suddenly realize that he
never approached the ultimate
goal. If this happened to
you if you tried 1000
options, and the 1001 th did not even come to mind, do not
break your computer, do not swear authors of the program. Put
the game (the team SAVE and LOAD it provided), play in anything
else: riddles program is quite novel and solve them
able only to those who can,
accumulated a lot of "adventyurny"
experience, return to the game with the new
bold decisions.
Since the available copy of the game
had branded screensavers, for
greater awareness of the program
in the heading placed
image of the first (start)
screen.
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