| Review: | A 17th-century Scottish ghost story involving a wicked baron, his
beautiful daughter, and the poor lad who loved her - all of whose
souls remain inside a decaying manor house. You play a soldier,
just returned from fighting the Roundheads and determined to put
the ghosts to rest. One of the better ghost games - good setting,
solid story, quite a lot of exposition scattered about (some of it
quite long), and a bevy of mechanical and magical puzzles, including
one very good large-scale one. Requires a little learning-by-death -
entering one particular room can end your game prematurely, and there's
no way to know it except by experience. Has a few subtleties that few
will notice without using the adaptive hints.
Rating: ****
Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)
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