Reviews

Another game bringing back great rose-tinted memories !

The original Fred was excellent for its time, great graphics and an enjoyable game.

The sequel was good but was very tricky, the most frustrating part was the inertia (Think thats the word) as Sir Fred wouldnt stop instantly.

This game was much different from the first, much more difficult but well worth perservering. Great little title

The best spanish game with La Abadia del Crimen. Awesome movements, colourful and funny graphics and a trully original story (rescue a princess from the castle she's hold captive). Well, perhaps not so original after all ...

A very difficult game also, and can be frustrating until you control the character's inertia. Once you are done with the controls, you'll find you can do a lot of things: Walk, run, jump, climb, swim, dive, pick up and throw objets, fight with a sword or a bow. I've always considered it as the precursor of Prince of Persia.

Good game ! One of the most popular Spanish games.

Took plantforms games to another level.

Cool graphics too !!

I never liked this arcade adventure very much. Colorful but somewhat basic graphics, sparse gameplay which made you spend too much time in finding your way around and an insane level of difficulty and frustration never made me think much of it.

Surely it is not bad, but it is much less polished and entertaining than, say, any similar game from the Wally series.

1986 Made in Spain (Spain)
by Carlos Martinez, Paco Menendez, Fernando Briega and Camilo Elizagarate

Sir Fred is one of the best games nuestros hermanos from Spain have offered us.
Graphically it is a delight with its coloured cartoonish looks reminiscent of Francisco Ibanez work.
The problem with it is its so frustratingly hard it disencourages even the most persevere player. I never got far in it. In fact I would congratulate myself each time I moved a screen, that's how hard it is. However I must admit it always made me curious in knowing what happens next, more than the majority of games. This addictive quality relies not only on the games looks and theme but also in its puzzles.

At first glance the game may look as an adventure/exploring game, a bit like Fred, the previous game, but it isn't, it's more a puzzle solving game with a few platforms to negotiate.
Technically speaking it is a bit double-edged, because if the innovating variety of movements is welcome, you can go from walking, climbing, swimming, etc, on the other hand some of this moves are hard to execute and make the game slow and frustrating, and should have been better tested by the authors.
And even if you master this movements, the arcade part of the game is lost, unlike the Wally Series, or even the simpler Zorro , which blend styles so well.

by Carlos Granados Martinez, Paco Menendez, Fernando Rada Briega, Camilo Cela Elizagarate, Juan Delcan

As we know, this is the renowned follow-up to the classic Fred, maze-platform game and in this sequel morphed into an arcade/adventure, a very colourful one, with several objects, puzzles and secret passages. So, I admit it's very nice to look at, but, personally, I have never really enjoyed it, although I tried. When I was a kid, I always stuck in the cave with that red-nosed naked man, or, even, I wasn't able to reach
the cloud from the balcony, above the moat. I haven't learned how to make that long jump while swinging on a rope, so, my ineptitude at Sir Fred was due to myself, and to the lack of instructions, nonetheless... I find Fred rather hard to control, and the inertia and acceleration subtleties don't help - although they're certainly very useful to bang against trees, walls and stuff. So I can say I really like it. Tehcnically good and with nice graphics, anyway. I absolutely prefer the original.

[no more than] 3,5/5

Cutely drawn and animated, but lacks fluidity in gameplay, is too exacting and frustrating.

The sequel to Fred takes place in the middle age. A valiant knight, Sir Fred, must rescue a princess imprisoned in the castle. It's a beautiful map that consists of dozens of detailed and colourful rooms: the moat, stable, bedchambers, throne room, ...

To reach his objetive, Sir Fred should use multiple objects and weapons and has the ability of swimming, fighting, running, climbing, ... being his movements one of the hardest points, with that inertia thing that made it difficult to control, being sometimes exasperating to reach certain places.

The excellent point of this game is that depending on the position of the objects (not always at the same place) there are different ways to rescue the princess and therefore end the game (58 game patterns) so we can say each game is a different adventure.

There's an absence of music and very few and poor sounds that don't avoid having a nice gaming experience. Definitely one of the classics of the spanish software of the 80s.

Very fine adventure.
Maybe a bit amateurish in a few aspects but very solid in general


Good points of originality and details of greatness. It is fair to give it a very good grade and high regard

this is a lot of fun. The frustration of not finding the exact touch to launch the things you pick up, in the swinging when hanging from the rope ... and what about the blows and injuries for not braking in time when you go too fast or hit yourself in the head for a jump at the wrong time ...

An early example of a game that implements physical laws. In such an ancient time, this was of a lot of merit

Also good graphics with comical style.


This was a very good "training ship" for Paco Menendez, Later reaching perfection in a certain Abbey

For 1986, with so much trash of little originality coming out at times, it is a very good twist of the adventure genre


It's true This doesn't offers you more on the exploration side, but that's not its point, being more the variety of movements and actions, the show of ability and the classic skills an arcade adventure requires. And overall, the search for solutions to advance.

Fortunately, This game also has its puzzle-solving side !!!

Therefore, in terms of originality, this game stands out more than the average.



It does not seem, in principle, a marvel of those that make history, but if you get involved a little in its gameplay (rather than in its plot, because it is simple) you discover what it shines in it.

And yes, it is true that the best testimony of its quality is the extremely high level reached by the masterpiece of its main programmer.

...go and take a look at the best tribute "The name of the rose" could have !!.