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From: elaine@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Elaine May)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Re: Elvira: is it any good? (It is)
Message-ID: <11480011@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 91 18:33:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.222434.21043@fido.wpd.sgi.com>
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>    I recently saw the game "Elvira: misstress of the dark" (or night, or
>    something).  It looked pretty neat, and the salesman said he likes it (but
>    that doesn't necessarily prove anything! :-).  It was a little pricey for
>    impulse buying, so I'm looking for a mini-review.

Elvira has very nice graphics and sound.  It is a "horror adventure" -- if
you are put off by having your character get decapitated (for instance),
you will not like this game.  Elvira's story line is a little thin (compared
to, say, Bane of the Cosmic Forge).  It is mostly hack & slash with some
simple puzzle solving.  It will load on a hard disk drive.  Combat is
semi-real-time (you must anticipate which way to block blows).

If great graphics & sound are important to you, Elvira has them.  The 
game mechanics are reasonable, the CRPG aspects have some interesting 
innovations (you must collect herbs, etc... to mix up spells), and the
plot line is fairly reasonable.  It isn't one of my favorite RPGs, but
it's not awful either.