Reviews

Pretty uninspiring platformer. The graphics are colourful and the Merlin sprite is big, but probably too big, and also the sprite interacts with EVERYTHING! Colourclash I don't normally mind, but sprites clashing with the backgrounds, as severely as this? No thanks.

The gameplay is pretty dull, just walk around each screen and collect items and most likely find yourself getting lost and unable to past enemies at all.

Frankly Merlin is a mess and Mike Westlake ended up cloning it twice for Sinclair User - pretty much the same game with a different theme. This and its SU sisters are better off avoiding.

You control a HUGE, GIANT and colourful Merlin, but the gameplay is simplistic and lacking.

2/5

Merlin is a colourful game on first look but once you start playing it all the problems pile up at pretty much the same time. The huge Merlin sprite clash with everything on the screen as the sprite moves BEHIND the background sprite rather than in front of. There is also no barriers, you can either jump up the stairs or you can walk through them if you so wish. He's very tall Merlin and that represents another problem, as getting past enemies is very difficult and timing is near impossible. His jump is also crap. This game serves as one of the biggest acts of deception I've ever come across, because with one look you're intrigued into thinking this is a colourful platformer and it turns out to be a huge graphical mess. Thankfully, I'll never play a game like this again, except the author cloned it for a magazine covertape, TWICE!

I remember seeing this game years and years ago. I don't think I ever actually bought it, because the alarm bells kind of went off when I looked at the back of the box a bit.

But this game looks absolutely amazing...…..On the back of the box!

Fast forward a few years later and I actually play this travesty, it's complete bollocks, there's absolutely no other way to describe this awful, awful, mess. Shambling, bumbling colour clashing misfit hobbles around onscreen, as you attempt to avoid tiny enemies, that in the real world you could simply ignore.

You'd think as well from how crap it actually is, and how badly received it was the author would've learned his lesson, and not had the sheer nerve to reskin this unplayable spunk stain 2 more times!

£1.99 was still a rip off for this, I wouldn't have gave them 25p!