Honestly I think the biggest pain in the ass is trying to make sense of the placement, because, as even the manual I think says, the direction you came from doesn't always lead you back. So like you go west to a room, then go north to go back where you were.
I am actually curious about going down the Zork games later on, primarily out of curiosity around how they transitioned from text to graphic adventures and even FMVs.
Also, final Zork I map
Probably some Gears of War 1 tomorrow, then probably big Cyberpunk replay spurred on by Neuromancer before going back to cryptic brain torture with La-Mulana.
trash that you'll never need, but it helps to have them in one place, and you'll want a lot of light weight and useless crap to use for maze mapping.
I fucked up on milestones, but they could help you to cut down on repetition if you softlock or mess up. Aside from that I always had "Safe" save to act as an achor and "Danger" save acting like a quick save inside the dungeon essentially.
4. Stockpile items in the living room. Most objects are
If any of you plan to ever play Zork 1 as well, a few quick recs:
1. Get Trizbort, or any other sort of game dungeon mapping software
2. Have Invisiclues handy, you're not getting through moon logic without it
3. Save a lot, name them in a way you could understand, and make milestone saves.
Loaded save before the end, and I guess they don't penalize you for the number of moves because 702 is way more than you would ideally need, even if it's actually way less than you realistically would do as a new player.
The game literally closes if you enter zork II area
Oh my god, it's finally over. Didn't actually need a walkthrough, because my previous playthrough was already near complete, but I did look up things from Infocom's own hintbook. Zero shame, cause nobody is beating this game on their own without any help without spending hundreds of hours.
Only have two more treasures though so this is feeling pretty good unless I somehow got softlocked again without knowing it.
Brass bauble has to be the most convoluted treasure in Zork I. Kinda doubt anyone got it without a lot of trial and error, talking to friends, and/or calling the company for hints. And it also gives you the lowest possible point reward (1 for getting, 1 for casing), which I suppose is the joke.
forgot to post this one as well. cruise liner arriving at a spaceport
Might as well count that as beating the final boss
Designated Living Room as stockpile now that I know what I do and don't need, and it already has too much shit.
This shit reminds me why I hated the fail state in Ace Attorney. Restart as a punishment doesn't work in these games, you're just forcing me to repeat things that take literally no effort but a decent bit of time.
I'm god knows how many hours into this and 550+ moves into the third run so I'm just going to restart and fucking guide through this shit once my map is not enough, this is so fucking boring.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm just softlocked now in Zork cause the candles burn passively and if you go for the crystal skull too late, they become too short for the ritual
Ok I'm discovering some Zork "teleports" around the map that make it a little less evil, but overall the game is still very high on the evil scale.
It almost doesn't look terrible if I zoom out hella far
Come on now
Wait, Dark Souls might actually be a Zork-like
i need to think of something to do with this platformer other than making challenging obstacles to avoid, it's like miyamoto said, when pornography becomes grotesque only the strong can jack off, or whatever.
I guess in the world of Zork they are really into Dark Souls style of delivering lore
They wrote all this shit on a matchbook??
And the more it goes on, the more it turns into a medieval fantasy twist on something like a classic noir novel, it's so sick.
People hate the 3rd game for various reasons, but I love that first 3 games all have these crazy mixups in terms of tone, objectives, and situations that shift it from just a stealth game to "you're a wicked good thief in a pretty fucked up medieval fantasy place."
I can't waaaait to see you go through the Thieves Guild. Probably the hardest map in the game for those of us not gifted with 3D mapping brain, and also has random sick drums between minutes of droning ambience.
My Zork map has been very functional but it sucks soooo bad and it's only getting uglier the more rooms I map
This is almost literally the plotline for the book that coined "robot" lmao.
