A big symphony of trolls and troubles and delights, spanning a wide variety of tones and scales. From series-spanning meta-jokes, to game-spanning japes, to little game design jokes, to blink-and-you-miss-it nods, this game has it all.

My favorite board was probably the House of Horrors. Brace yourself for the terrors that lurk within...

Bright and colorful and strange and beautiful, with legit trolls and a couple moments where I found myself laughing helplessly at the screen. A superb La Vie, superb Weaving, and as always I love the fact that it's a reinterpretation of known source material, the ZZT-official-equivalent of reversing the hard ceramic back into soft clay to be sponged into a new shape.

Okay so it was a little long for a single-sitting stream, but it was shorter than I expected owing to the source material. Which is my biggest issue with it, that the parody ends up being tamer for the player than the real deal. You accidentally made a better version of Best of ZZT!

Great death animations. Nice to look at. The shark board was a nice interpretation over the original (though I am terrible at baccarat). I enjoyed the head headhunter actually making good on his promise if players followed (though I wouldn't have thought to on my own probably.) Lots of other moments where player actions get to change dialog that older ZZT games wouldn't have expanded on like trying to buy more rope and health potions.

I peeked at the boards that I missed on stream, and quite like the chess board... board, and the alternate ending.

As a Gem Hunter trilogy completer, the hidden treasures turning out to be required may have been a bit much. I worry most folks (myself included were you not watching the stream) won't have actually gotten to the end naturally because of it