Mortallity Bytes
I’ve been listening to many audio books on my way into work from the Discworld series. I’m up to book 10. I started looking for more information about the series and discovered that they had a game. Two games in fact. The first was on an old system that I hadn’t heard of, but I was able to download it off of there site and find an emulator and play it in my web browser. The second game came out 10 years ago and runs on the PS one.
I found the game on eBay and won the auction. When it came, I searched up and down all over my house for all of my parts to the PSOne. After an hour of this, I had a running PSOne hooked up to my TV and an enjoyable game on my hands.
The whole thing is setup with puzzles of collecting stuff so far. I run around as Rincewind, fully dressed in wizzards garb with a loyal chest of many tiny feet following me. Many characters from the books are there including cut me own throaght dibbler and the librarian (an ape). The game appears to reference many books this time instead of the first book alone like the first game did. I just hope I don’t get lost understanding the humor of some of the sceens that I haven’t heard about yet.
During my days of growing up with IBM compatible computers, an adventure game was commonly walking around different two dimensional artistic backdrops picking up things laying around and talking to people. These were games like Kings Quest, The Secret of Monkey Island, Indianna Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Leisure Suite Larry, Space Quest, Adventures of Willy Beamish, Quest for Glory. Actually, my IBM PC Junior packed away has the first Kings Quest on it.
It’s nice to walk around like this, but also lacking. You don’t feel like you “are” the character, but more of the fact that you are directing the character. 3D has changed all of that. It’s amazing that this kind of 2D game exists for the PSone since most games for it are 3D.