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- Companions of Xanth -
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Legend made some pretty wellknown
adventures when they started like the spellcasting series, they were basically
interactive fiction but with added graphics. Companions of Xanth was the
first game from Legend that had a fully mousedriven interface though the
origins of the game are pretty clear, there is for instance a WAIT button
something I have never seen before on any other point and click adventure.
The interface is fairly obvious with actions on the left, your inventory
on the bottom, and the main screen takes up the rest.
The game's intro shows that two demons in de land of Xanth have made a deal,
each will pick a mundane (human) who has to win a game. Whoever of the two
mundanes wins the game will allow one of the demons to win. You play as
Dug, a guy who's girlfriend wants to break up with you and as a dare your
friend asks you to play this game called Companions of Xanth or he will
be allowed to date your girlfriend. You can pick from four companions but
only Nada Nage will actually be helpfull since the rest will get you killed
right away. Right after that you meet your rival called Kim who notices
that you look like a computer screen and deducts that you don't believe
in magic or the realness of Xanth which obviously helps her in her quest
to win. Neither of you know that you are playing for a demon though.
Right after that you can start the game in earnest and though you are not
quite sure what the goal is you do know that you are competing for a mysterious
prize. You'll travel throughout Xanth in order to find out what you are
looking for and Nada can provide you not only with some advice but in some
situations she is crucial to many puzzles. Later on you will switch companions
with your rival Kim which is explained in the book Demons don't dream (on
which the game was based) which was provided with the game and you'll even
have to mount a rescue for Nada after she has been captured.
Some of the puzzles are very obscure to say the least and occasionally you
will have to resort to the compemdium of Xanth which is provided at the
start of the game to look up some facts about Xanth. There are loads of
puns in the game like trying to beat the evil Com-Pewter or getting rid
of the Censor-ship that censors everything the townspeople say. I know there
are people who don't like these puns or kind of humor Legend has in some
of their games but I guess you will have to see for yourself how you think
of it. I enjoyed the game quite a lot and if you can get hold of the CD
version I can recommend it because the voiceacting is pretty good.
Overal rating: 8/10
Erde Kaiser
Companions of Xanth was released for one system here are some notes:
| DOS |
Released
in 1993.
This is the disk version and doesn't contain speech, the CD version
had full speech throughout the entire game. |
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Date added |
Jul-11-2008 11:51 |
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Name |
Companions of Xanth |
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Developer |
Legend entertainment
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Publisher |
Legend entertainment
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First released |
1993 |
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Genre |
Adventure
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Download |
MS-DOS, filesize: 5638 Kb
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