January: Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

Watser · Post by **Watser** » January 31st, 2024, 16:58

Watser wrote: ↑ January 31st, 2024, 12:05

SpellSword wrote: ↑ December 14th, 2023, 13:59

► be careful I just read that there are ways to deadlock yourself by losing items.
CRPG Addict wrote:
A demon gives you a quest to recover his jeweled eye from a dragon. If you solve the quest, you can't win the game, because you also need the eye to awaken Khazan. You'd better not use the Bag of Winds to escape from storms on the ocean, because you need it in the final area.

Will keep this in mind. Just found the windbag and acquired the demon's eye.
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To be fair,the dragon explicitly says that the eye is needed to awaken the sleeper so giving it to the demon just smells like bait but of course you never know.

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Watser · Post by **Watser** » February 2nd, 2024, 21:34

I find it difficult to put it into words just how frustrating, unfinished, disjointed, untested, and uglyass mess of a game this is.
This is the last time @rusty_shackleford gets to suggest a game.

Watser · Post by **Watser** » February 2nd, 2024, 21:56

For anyone curious, Scorpia's review on the game can be found in Computer Gaming World issue 79 - https://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_79.pdf
And CRPGAddict has likewise documented his frustrations about the game - https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2015/04 ... ating.html
There is a genuinely good game hidden here, potentially even a timeless classic, but it's buried in bugs, random gotcha events, aggressive level scaling, and a hundred ways of breaking the game.