Magor Investigates
I haven’t played any of Larry Horsfield’s games before. But seeing some stuff about them, and it being in ADRIFT, and an hour and a half… but this one doesn’t have any public reviews yet so I thought I’d take a stab at it and… 22 minutes later it tells me I’m done!? Of course, probably 8 of those minutes were spent fighting with the parser: this is even worse than usual for an ADRIFT game.
oy vey
> x sink
A quite ordinary ceramic sink, it has a plughole and a wooden plug attached to a chain. In one side there is an overflow opening. You can put the plug into it to stop the water running away through the plughole.
> put plug in sink
You put the wooden plug inside the ceramic sink.
> get water
There's no water in the sink.
> turn sink on
That cannot be turned on
> fill sink
FILL THE CERAMIC SINK WITH what, e.g. FILL SINK WITH WATER, etc.
> fill sink with water
The ceramic sink is already full of water.
> get water from sink
Try pouring the water into something or you could empty it.
> pour water in kettle
Pouring cold water into the copper kettle won't help you in this game.
> fill kettle
Ok, you fill the kettle with water from the faucet.
> n
...
> hang kettle
I don't understand what you want to do with the copper kettle.
> x arm
It enables you to hang a kettle or cooking pot over the fire to boil some water or cook some food. It is swung away from the fire at the moment.
> put kettle on hook
I did not understand the word "hook".
> hang kettle
I don't understand what you want to do with the copper kettle.
> hang kettle on arm
Ok, you hang the kettle on the swinging arm and swing it so that the kettle is over the fire.
You must now wait until the kettle boils.
Other than that… it was a nice enough little puzzle game, heavy on the lore, not all of which is explained (this is what, number 4 in a series?). You have a command tasks (or t) that tells you what things you need to do. I assumed the ten tasks were just one section of the game and then I’d get another task list when I finished this one but nope, that’s it. Dunno. Can’t decide if it wants to infodump at you or be serious or tell jokes. But it was short enough I was pretty fine with it.
- Finding the Archway
- Watering the Aspidistra
- Meeting the Archivist
- Reading the Herbal
- Picking the Herbs
- Brewing the Infusion
- Giving Infusion to Archivist
- Finding Kelson’s Lineage
- Reporting to Archivist
- Reporting to Kelson