Reviews

And now from Spectrum Computing, the magazine not the website, is this like four magazine games in a row now or something, The Archaeologist. This actually was set for commercial release but the publisher went bust so it never was as a result, shame. Which publisher that was I don't know, I'm sure Paul Sneesby told us in his permit but you can't read those anymore on World of Spectrum so thank you for that it brings me one step closer to permanently relying on Spectrum Computing, the website not the magazine, for my random Spectrum needs. On to this game now and it's another Manic Miner game. Annoyingly the tune isn't played automatically, you have to press T to play it, and it happens to be Morning Mood by Edvard Grieg which is different in the very least. And apparently you can save it mid-game, this was save states before emulation. As for the gameplay itself, well I have felt disenchanted with Manic Miner over the years due to the many Jet Set Willy clones that have existed over the years and playing this doesn't help in the slightest. It looks pretty but the jumping is off, the enemies are quicker than you than avoid them is a pain and I managed to get stuck inside a level's layout and so it's bugged as well. I think you would have to be a dedicated JSW fan and have played many of its copy games to fully enjoy this one, I haven't and will never review one of them, so I didn't.