Posted May 15, 2015
Just finished this game (in Boxer with MT-32 roms) and absolutely loved it! It also crossed my mind that what they called "Virtual Theatre" back then is called "Sandbox" now. A fantastic concept people love to praise today, but fail to recognise in this game back in a day and continue to not recognise today.
To me it was a quite interesting experience to trace people's and creature's routes in my head while I was planning on some task spanning multiple screens, plan encounters, evade, eavesdrop, chain commands to my partners.
The game surely has it's drawbacks, but the concepts it's trying to explore are extremely curious! Just make sure you play in DosBox or Amiga emulator, because ScummVM's path finding and sound driver issues are infuriating.
To me it was a quite interesting experience to trace people's and creature's routes in my head while I was planning on some task spanning multiple screens, plan encounters, evade, eavesdrop, chain commands to my partners.
The game surely has it's drawbacks, but the concepts it's trying to explore are extremely curious! Just make sure you play in DosBox or Amiga emulator, because ScummVM's path finding and sound driver issues are infuriating.
