ESCAPE FROM MONJAS
It does annoy me when another coder's first game for the Speccy is this good. Escape from Monjas is an adventure game set on a space station, and your goal is to get off it and live a better life. The plot alone betrays that it's not your regular 'blow it up and escape with the money' adventure - Monjas is riddled with whimsy. It's funny, and not just funny for a game - it's properly funny.
I love the author's distinctive style. It's rare to see large cartoony graphics using lots of paper colour. We don't see many 4-way scrollers either.
Most of the puzzles are well designed, and the GUI is intuitive. As always in adventure games, I got stuck. However, when I finally discovered exactly what happens when you mix a rubber chicken with a nuclear reactor, I laughed at the result.
To date, Escape from Monjas is Rastersoft's only published Speccy game. Let's hope it doesn't stay that way.
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