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Here Comes The Sun is a text adventure with a few graphic screens and minimal sound in which your task is to take control of a space station and prevent it from colliding with the sun.

It's good to see someone taking enough care over a program to create their own character set, and the text is clearly presented.

There's a fairly large vocabulary, with most of the standard commands as well as some more unusual ones, The vocabulary is listed on the screen during loading.

I have a number of quibbles with this game. The lirst is that a good deal of unnecessary effort has been put into providing witty diversions while playing.

At various points during the game, an aardvark eating an orchid crosses your path, and at other times the program resorts to Shakespearian English and Hobbit references.

Touches like these may amuse some people, but surely the effort would have been put to better use in adding relevant detail to the locations, most of which have very little to offer.

A number of drones and members of the ship's crew come and go. but none of them have much to do, and even less to say. From time to time one of the drones will cotton on to the fact that you are a stranger, at which point the game ends and you have to start again.

I can't help thinking that a little less quirky humour and a little more substance would have made this a better adventure.