Does anyone know of guides for the harder Infocom games that tell you what you have to accomplish before moving on to the next part of the game?"Don't leave Kensington Park until you have . . ." I don't want to be told how to solve a puzzle, but I do want to know if there's something I have to do before getting to a point in the game that's irreversible.
For example, I'm playing "Trinity" and I'm pretty sure I'm at an unwinnable point in the game. I know I could restart and proceed more thoroughly, use a walkthrough, or play around with InvisiClue hints. What I'd really like is something that just says,
Has anyone created such a guide for this or other "nasty/cruel" Infocom games?
On 8/22/19 11:30 AM, smohler9@gmail.com wrote:says, "Don't leave Kensington Park until you have . . ." I don't want to be told how to solve a puzzle, but I do want to know if there's something I have to do before getting to a point in the game that's irreversible.
Does anyone know of guides for the harder Infocom games that tell you what you have to accomplish before moving on to the next part of the game?
For example, I'm playing "Trinity" and I'm pretty sure I'm at an unwinnable point in the game. I know I could restart and proceed more thoroughly, use a walkthrough, or play around with InvisiClue hints. What I'd really like is something that just
Has anyone created such a guide for this or other "nasty/cruel" Infocom games?
Not that I can recall, except for a handful in the post-Infocom age >(“Return to Zork”, “Zork Nemesis”, ...). But the classic Invisiclues >material comes pretty close to what you’re asking for.
In their original format, or something that tried to emulate that,
where you get a general hint, and then a middle specific hint, then an outright here's what to do.
Most of what I've seen now-a-days just lists them all together in a
text file, and you can see everything all at once.
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