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From: jdyer@indirect.com (Jason Dyer)
Subject: Re: good game endings
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 23:39:27 GMT
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Carl Muckenhoupt (baf@max.tiac.net) wrote:
: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman) writes:

: People have objected to the ending of Zork Zero for the same reason, but 
: to a certain extent the foreshadowing is there to be discovered.  For 
: example, if you look at the jester in Mirror Lake, you pretty much know 
: what he is.

There are people that DON'T like the ending to Zork Zero!?!?
I found it very good. I felt pretty stupid too...there was a _lot_ of
foreshadowing, and I never thought about it. My favorite was
the picture torn out of the Jester entry in the encyclopedia.
Plus, the way it unifies with Zork 1/2/3 is very cool.
As for the ending to Spellbreaker...ever beat Beyond Zork? I think
the ending feels a lot better when unified with the ending for that game.
Of course, you can also include Return to Zork with the storyline
too.  I found playing a game in the Age of Science to make the
Spellbreaker ending more meaningful.

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