| Agon Episode 3: Pirates of Madagascar | Private Moon Studios | 2004 | |
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In the third in the episodic adventures from Hungarian developers available through online download for $10, each episode is a tightly focused, self-contained adventure with an emphasis on exploration and puzzles. Professor Samuel Hunt, the historian from the British Museum whose mission in 1903 is to track down twelve accursed games in an effort to unravel the sinister legend of the AGON. In Pirates of Madagascar, our returning middle-aged professor pulls ashore near a small fishing village. Believing the board game he seeks to be in the possession of the local chief, Hunt soon discovers that the game has long since been stolen by pirates and hidden somewhere in the jungle. Accused of being a (rather well-mannered and articulate) pirate himself, but without a map where X marks the spot, Hunt must decipher clues and solve a complex series of puzzles to locate the buried "treasure". The gameplay in Madagascar is also very solid, and easily improved over the last episode. There are more inventory puzzles in this installment, making for a better balance between practical solutions and abstract problem solving this time around. Several puzzles require piecing together clues from multiple sources, which proves challenging, but certainly fair. | ||
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