This will be going into Issue 34 of Zzap!64. Been enjoying this. Got stiffed on my first attempt against Cheatbot on the hardest level with the selection of widgets it got. I had no chance despite my best efforts :P
I have a real job, this is done in my spare time amongst everything else. Sheesh, who thought asking a simple question would invoke so much ire and consternation? As said, we are obliged most of our review copies for free. Most of tbe payback on a review is the publicity rather than the actual score the game receives, if we don’t get a copy, c’est la vie, something else gets reviewed, no skin off my nose.
You don't know me, please don’t pretend either to know our processes. We don’t get a budget for reviewing games. We are thankful, and always state as such to the dev teams and publishers, that the vast majority of paid for titles are given to us as review copies. To use the age old expression, if you don’t ask, you don’t get, and if a dev declines, then that’s their choice and we respect it. To date, no one has declined.
Yeah he shut the store, and when I spoke to him last, he said he'd be back but didn't know when. Seemingly "when" may sadly be "never", and I've not been able to reach him since.
DolphinDOS was like one of the very first on-board kernals to speed up loading times. Alongside JiffyDOS. We are talking 40 years ago here when they came out. You may be able to get them online to insert into VICE and test that way too.
Got quite a way through, how many levels in total are there? (without repeatedly hitting F5 to find out!). May end up review wise in Zzap!64 issue 32, we have an awful lot of games competing in the aftermath of Impossible Mission 3 heh
It works fine with Vice and Denise because that’s how we reviewed it for Zzap. I’m not sure any of us have TheC64 etc to try it. If we do find issues we do report them to the devs.
Oak Island is better than the first Deathflood, but still horrendously frustrating at times heh. There will be a review of it AND Sherwood in the next issue of Zzap!64
Level 13 had me going "huh?!" until I accidentally discovered there's a move you can perform that isn't listed in the manual. It's definitely the hardest of the series so far. But not unbeatable ;)
I wrote the intro so apologies for the mistakes. Given some other games in the last five years or so have taken to giving infinite levels on the easiest setting, and the lives counter wasn’t going down, I assumed the same here for this game. And weirdly I couldn’t trigger the srtifacts on the easiest setting but I did on the middle setting, leading me to believe otherwise. It seemed logically that other games also stop you getting the best ending on the easiest setting.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I got at far as level eight. Yes the waterfall level is quite tricky to figure out heh, but that’s part of the fun!
Having played through a few times for the Zzap!64 review, the bow is definitely the better weapon than the sword. Furthest reached level 15 with the bow and died mostly due to bad spawns.
