The source code for the original is right here, so rather than waste time with this flawed reimagining we recommend spending a happy afternoon researching one of gaming’s most influential titles and let the world of Colossal Cave remain in your imagination. Inevitably, it’s far more interesting to delve into the history of Colossal Cave Adventure, and Roberta Williams, than it is to play the remake.
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Based on the original 1970’s design by Will Crowther & Don Woods, the origin of adventure games, this 3D update maintains its vintage charm, while revitalizing it for modern audiences. The subtle signposting in the text is especially clever and consulting the narrator, after an initial visual recce comes up blank, is the one time the remake’s mix of prose and graphics makes mechanical sense. Acclaimed game designer Roberta Williams revives Colossal Cave as a retro, point-&-click, cave exploration puzzler. Navigating the darkness safely If you walk in a dark room, you are very likely to die. The logic of adventure games has always been extremely difficult to get right but Colossal Cave nailed it the first time out and has much to teach modern games, that think pulling a switch or following a clear set of instructions counts as a puzzle. Opening the grate The WellHouse grate is unlocked with the keys in WellHouse building. On the plus side, most of the puzzles stand up impressively well.
Metal Gear Solid collection has content warning - probably for sexism and smoking It’s like reading the description in a lavish holiday brochure and instead being presented with the grim realities of a rainy fortnight in Morecambe. Here, though, the lava effects look like a bad tech demo for a 2000s era graphic card. The flowery descriptions of an underground volcano, deep in the heart of the cave system, should translate into something equivalent to the fiery ending of The Northman, or at least Return Of The King. That’s a neat touch but it only underlines how imaginative and fantastical the original descriptions were and how mundane and unimpressive their visual rendering is. The text is all still there, just now it’s read by an optional narrator. It’s a shame, because the way the remake works shows such obvious love for the original version(s) it’s almost possible to forgive it for how it looks. That’s understandable given the small niche the game is trying to appeal to, and the equally small budget that implies, but the graphics being so unimpressive immediately removes most of the remake’s reason for existing. Or at least that’s the intention, in reality the visuals are at least 15 years away from anything that could be considered state-of-the-art.
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The remake allows for full 3D movement, as locations that were previously only described in economical but eloquent prose are now portrayed using modern graphics. The original Colossal Cave Adventure was, understandably, a huge influence on her career, which explains why, at the age of 69, she and her husband have chosen this as their comeback project.
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