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Gwendolyn is an 'arcade-adventure' of the
type which is fully joystick controlled and comes on two disks. The
arcade adventure is much more graphically oriented than the text based
adventures and Gwendolyn includes a certain amount of animation and
sound. Whilst there are puzzles to solve the choices are limited and the
plot is therefore not as complex as most text based adventures. The
graphics are reasonably good but use artifacting which does not lend
itself well to the PAL system and the images are therefore lacking in
colour. At first I was quite disappointed with the game mainly because
of the limitations of joystick control and I wandered around for a long
time doing absolutely nothing, but once I was underground it became more
interesting. Eventually I became hooked as more progress was made. One
of the attractions of a two-disk adventure is to get onto the second
disk! Gwendolyn is much more suited to novice or intermediate
Adventurers or those who like some graphics and action. Experienced text
Adventurers would probably find the joystick control too limiting and
are likely to solve the adventure in a short time.
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