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This is an adventure game for the novice and experienced alike. Being a 'multi-adventure' you do not experience the mind-numbing problem of coming to a dead halt at your first apparently insurmountable obstacle. Merely leap into your handy Time Capsule and zoom off elsewhere. There are five 'elsewheres' for you to zoom off to so there is plenty to do on a first play.

Initially this is a mapping and maze-solving task which will teach the beginner some important principles of adventuring. Response is quite good and the vocabulary adequate. Just when you think everything seems straightforward this text-only adventure throws up some real challenges. Identifying and collecting objects present few problems (there are some random elements which require time-wasting perseverance) but entering locations can present a few.

The problem can be unforgiving to the unwary. Having got stuck in a shaft where it is too dark to see and movement impossible I didn't even get the option of starting from scratch. I gave up, pressed reset... and found I'd lost the program. To make a blunder and then have to reload does not encourage 'adventurous' play. By all means kill me off but having to reload the whole game... tut, tut!

All in all, definitely a game to return to and try again and again. Some descriptions seem 'sloppy' but this adventure is much better than many. There is a lasting impression that it has hidden depths... will someone tell me how I can get a light so that I can see them?