This is one of the small handful of games I've ever emulated, and the first time I played it I nearly beat it - getting all the way to the final section where you have to find the names of the treasures - before stopping. Why i stopped I don't remember, I might have lost my progress or just stopped in a moment of difficulty and found it too daunting to return.

But, years later, something brought me back to this game, to play the entire thing again, and I'm glad it did. I became interested in this game when reading about its long-in-development sequel, but the game shouldn't just be known because of that, it should be known because it's just a great collection of puzzles, a virtual activity book for all ages, wrapped up in a very cool Tarot theme with nice blip and bloop sounds. Assembling the map is such a cool "meta puzzle", I'd love to have a poster of that on my wall. And words like "ERA" and "IVY" are now connected to this game in my head. I'll definitely play the sequel at some point.

Reviewed on Aug 25, 2022


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