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Message: 60
Author: terrain_uk
Date: 29/02/2000
Subject: Willy's Afterlife.
This is the second time i've typed this posting.
first time I was disturbed, and I dont remember
submitting it. Apologies in advance if I did and I'm on
twice.
Anyway, down to business again. I've just got round to
having my first real go on Willy's afterlife. Here's my
opinion.
The screens are (in my opinion) nicely designed. I'm
not sure if this Adban's first JSW game but his rooms
are even more impressive if it is.
I think the
falling without dying feature shows that this is not just
another JSW game with the screens redesigned and nothing
else. Not that I'd moan about any of the JSW redesigns,
but I always think it's nice to have features not
found in the original.
The theme of the game (ie the
afterlife), and the graphics in general remind be of the
rooms "The Chapel" and "Entrance to Hades" from the
original JSW. Wether the author was influenced by the
screens I couldn't say. It might even be that I'm the
only person who links these rooms with this game. I
don't know, but I just get reminded of them, every time
I play it.
I actually did a naughty and played
the game before I read the documentation. I couldnt
wait, but after i did read it the game made more
sense.
I'm glad to see the bit about willy getting
resurrected. Sounds sad, but I reckon Willy deserves a bit of
luck. Even becoming rich backfired on him. Poor bloke.
Anyway, to get back to the point I thought the storylines
was fairly good.
To finish off I'd just like to
say that I'd love to see a Manic Miner game by Adban,
but I believe he's fairly busy at the moment, so
it'll be a while before we see any follow ups if indeed
we do see any follow ups at all. I hope we
do.
Anyway, these are my opinions after playing the game
after a short while. I'll probably post again when I
get a bit further. Sorry this post is a bit long, I
tend to get carried away.
Jon.
P.S I wrote
this out the second time at nearly 1:00 am so i
apologise if any of it doesnt make sense.
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