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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Re: Hodj'n'Podj Demos in alt.binaries.multimedia
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:51:39 GMT
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Darren Austin (dood@bonk.sun.com) wrote:
: Yeah, I liked the reverse time puzzle as well.  Just out of
: curiosity, what was the above mentioned hated puzzle?  I don't
: remember anything that egregious in S101, but then again, I be a
: yank...=)

I believe they're referring to the Island of Lost Soles, where the player
had to cast a spell on each soul, identifying them by their true name.
For example, the name of the raging fire, or blaze, was "Blaise."  I didn't
find this one to be that infuriating, though.  Despite the fact that a
spell had to be cast 80 different times, the names of the souls were
different (some of them quite hard to determine), and I thought Meretzky
did an extremely creative job in coming up with them.  The reverse-time
puzzle, though, was beyond creative.  That was sheer genius!
