In the third game of the adventure game series Zork, you are once again a nameless adventurer, only this time you won't travel through a beautiful magical land, but are immediately cast into a deep dungeon. Like in a dream, you hear a mysterious voice telling you that you have passed all the tests but one. When conscience returns to you, you find yourself on the endless spiral of stairs, with only your trusty lantern near you... will you be able to survive the horrors of the Dungeon?
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Zork 3 is, as we say in the business, "a huge bastard."
It's easy to tell that most of the game consists of puzzles that were cut from everything else because they were too tedious for primetime in the earlier games. Zork 3 is, pretty clearly, the leftovers. In saying this, I don't necessarily mean that the puzzles are bad, they're just huge, and difficult, and there isn't much in between them. Frankly, Zork 2 is the one with the bad puzzles, it's just that none of them are as involved or as time consuming as the ones in Zork 3.
Zork 3 feels very much like the Final Dungeon of Zork. It's no-nonsense (or less-nonsense, at least), it's hitting you with the big guns, and it's not going to waste any more time with funny wizards. Personally not my favorite, but a suitable finale.
It's easy to tell that most of the game consists of puzzles that were cut from everything else because they were too tedious for primetime in the earlier games. Zork 3 is, pretty clearly, the leftovers. In saying this, I don't necessarily mean that the puzzles are bad, they're just huge, and difficult, and there isn't much in between them. Frankly, Zork 2 is the one with the bad puzzles, it's just that none of them are as involved or as time consuming as the ones in Zork 3.
Zork 3 feels very much like the Final Dungeon of Zork. It's no-nonsense (or less-nonsense, at least), it's hitting you with the big guns, and it's not going to waste any more time with funny wizards. Personally not my favorite, but a suitable finale.
It's 1979. There's nothing left to be said in the genre of adventure games: empty worlds of puzzles and treasure.
Infocom: let's make an adventure game that emphasizes the emptiness of treasure hunting, and add encounters that can't be solved by victory in combat.
Also Infocom: let's put in all the inscrutable puzzles left over from PDP-10 Zork so the players get their money's worth.
Infocom: let's make an adventure game that emphasizes the emptiness of treasure hunting, and add encounters that can't be solved by victory in combat.
Also Infocom: let's put in all the inscrutable puzzles left over from PDP-10 Zork so the players get their money's worth.
It’s meh