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Animated Adventure by PSYGNOSIS

Reviewed By Lu Richardson


This is the sequel to Inocent Until Caught, one of the few 
adventures I've ever given up in disgust.  Why?  Because you just 
could not see the items which were vital to complete the game.  
Because of the lack of logic behind the puzzles.  Because it went 
beyond trying to keep me interested and lapsed into utter boredom.

So, with some trepidation, I had a look at Guilty.  Yep, the same 
excellent graphics and fairly logical interface (the right icons 
flash according to what you can do - but you have to cover every 
pixel on the screen!  And don't be too sure about anything), the 
same smooth animation and feeble attempts at humour (though I LOVED 
the Jewish Momma computer).  And the same problem with spotting 
items.  However, this time I was ready for that.  Not that it did me 
any good.

The storyline is that you get picked up by a cop when your attempted 
holdup fails (probably due to the uncooperative cow, of the dairy 
sort, who was meant to help you) and are taken into a ship so that 
you can be sent to jail.  However, things go slightly wrong and you 
wind up visiting various planets and sorting divers problems out.

At the outset you can choose to be the female or the male character, 
which means that you can play the game in different ways; actually, 
two sides of the same coin.  It makes better sense if you play with 
both characters, first the male then the female.  That's a plus - so 
many of these run-of-the-mill games just get played once and are 
instantly forgotten.  In this case, you can have another bash and 
see what's new - before you forget it.

The thread of the story is so loose that it's hardly worth 
following.  The object of the exercise seems to be to land on 
various planets and do your stuff; just you solve the puzzles, never 
mind that you don't know why you are doing all this.   There are 
some aliens to sort out, I expect you'll come across them sometime.

The whole thing is very disjointed and the problems you have to 
solve are hardly inspired, let alone logical.  They are tough mainly
because it's difficult to see the one thing which holds the key to 
the solution.  In other words, you would have no problem solving the 
puzzles if only the important items were easier to see.  

Only one thing is original in this game; move the Examine cursor 
around the character and his eyes will follow it.  Now, THAT's 
amusing.  Apart from that, a very ordinary adventure which should 
keep you entertained for a while, till you get stuck.  Which most 
people undoubtedly will.  Due to the current lack of RPGs and 
adventures (it's all shoot'em ups and space flight games at the 
moment) this product will probably be more popular than it actually 
deserves.  Still, I've seen a lot worse.


This Article Copyright 1995 of Lu Richardson.
Written for Cheet Sheets Magazine.