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When I got this game it had great 2-D animation, charcaters, fantastic voice acting from Eric Idle and pretty funny humor. Although the game has a Monty Phython feel and a fantasy atmosphere, the game it self is just not good at all. It's basically a point and click adventure. You use a cursor to click on things with the awkwardness of the PlayStation controller (a mouse that comes with the game would be much better rather than buying an official PlayStation mouse). Gameplay is very frustrating and slow. The puzzles are VERY HARD. And I'm not joking, for example: there is one part in the game where you have to find bee's wax candles, sounds simple enough. First you collect a pepper, then you get inscence, you find a piece of cloth off a dress, then you go to the University Gardens and grate the pepper over the flowers, when the bees collect the pollen from the flowers they soon start to get hot and produce wax, then you put the cloth that you found on Rincewind (the character you play). And then finally you use the inscence to smoke out the bee's hive to collect the wax to bring back to the candle maker to make BEE'S WAX CANDLES. This is very tiring gameplay and requires a lot of patients. All of the gameplay throughout the game is like what I have written above. There are no hints and you have to merely quess where and how to get these clues. It soon gets very frustrating when you don't have a clue of how to capture a SMELL... (another mission in the game). Another part of the game your required to collect some sticks, fuck... but how do I get sticks and where the hell do I get them from > Answer: You collect some random objects around the map that look long and similar to sticks, only to replace them with the sticks that the wizards are playing polo with in the University Gardens. What the fuck!!! Who thought this shit up!?

There are strategy guides to this game, but in order to clear the bloodly thing you have to rely on the strategy guide alone, which is no fun. This game gets very boring and tiring too quickly, and soon the player looses interest.

Note: Get this game only if your really interested in this kind of gaming, otherwise, avoid and save your money which I didn't.
I gave this game 3/10 because it was interesting (for a while) and its humor is very funny in places.

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