#A personal nightmare series

Finally, be warned! This gory game is NOT for children. Horror Soft has developed a major new adventure system for 16-bit machines it's a bit like Sierra's, a bit like Mindscape's, but it has an identity all of its own. Granted, though, that it'll be the graphics output on which the player's attention will mainly be focused. The text messages, too, tend to be flat and uninspired, despite there being a reputed 90k text in the game before compression. But whilst the animation of the characters in the story is very lifelike, intellectually they are wooden. The animated storyline is consistent from location to location. SAVE and RESTORE are two very necessary options, and because you're likely to die a horrible death at any time, SAVE should be used regularly! But when you do save a position, make sure you note it down, for there is no way of listing these within the game. They can be taken by dragging into the INV icon. In order to finish your quest, you have to find the local bad people (manualвЂ™s words, people) and turn them in to the police. The actual game consists of exploring the village, gathering items so you can use them somewhere else, and interrogating people for hints and solutions. ROOM similarly displays all takeable objects in a given location. He has to unravel the villageвЂ™s secret, find his father, and bring an end to his personal nightmare. INV replaces the graphics screen with an 'icon list' of objects carried. Movement is by mouse, or, again, by keyboard text. But whole sentences such as PUT BRIEFCASE IN WARDROBE will be accepted by the parser.

An object can then be selected by clicking on the appropriate part of the picture, and the whole command is then entered by clicking the right hand mouse button. Instead of actually typing commands, a verb can be selected with the left hand mouse button, and it will appear in the input area below the text window. To the left of the screen arc direction icons, and to the right, verb icons. The game can be played from the keyboard or mouse. Your object is to shop the guilty ones to the local bobby, and rescue people before they are ritually sacrificed. It turns out that the Devil has taken over the lives of some of the villagers, and horrific crimes are taking place there. Just before you are about to leave, you receive a disturbing letter which states that you have to stay at the Dog and Duck and that your mother is away visiting her sick sister. In Personal Nightmare, your father is an oddball vicar, and a letter from your mother prompts you to visit them.

#A personal nightmare series

Here is the first in a series of horror adventures from Horror Soft.