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Although subtitled "A Text Adventure Game", Zyll is actually a
revolutionary text-only RPG that introduces many concepts that have not since been
seen together in one game. The basic plot: you have been transported to a distant
land to recover the black orb and at least 4 treasures from Zyll, the evil sorcerer
who destroyed your homeland. It's basically a MUD before MUDs existed, an all-text
RPG (even going so far as to include three classes of character to choose from).
It's real-time, it allows two people to play at once (cooperatively or competitively),
and it's highly randomized for replay value: Objects and monsters are placed
differently in every game. The screen is divided into ASCII-border windows, and
play is driven by single keystrokes rather than a parser (a necessity for the
two-player simultaneous option), but there are lots of long text descriptions. With
three different types of characters to choose from (Warrior, Thief, and Wizard),
high replayability, and some excellent fantasy writing, Zyll is a classic fantasy RPG. |