Perfect Entertainment scored again in 1996 with the second
installment of Discworld - only this time Death has gone missing....
Yes, our intrepid not-so-swift apprentice wizard is back and he's bigger
and better than ever. As the game opens we find Rincewind strolling, okay
so he was slightly leaning, okay, okay the man couldn't walk a straight
line if the fate of the Discworld depended on it, with one very big, also
staggering, orangutan (I can only assume they had been drinking banana
daiquiris) when what does our Rincewind spy? A bomb rigged donkey cart
parked in the donkey cart park. Of course being the hero that he is,
Rincewind decides to diffuse it. Rule #1 - NEVER try to diffuse a bomb
when you're bombed yourself and Rule #2 - NEVER ask an orangutan for color
advice. Needless to say Rincewind winds up blowing up said donkey cart and
unfortunately also blow Death off his horse (Death was galloping to pick
up the remains of one Rincewind should there be a need). Well, Death
decides after that to take a vacation.
Now this is not a good thing because there is no jr. Death. Which means
there was no one to take the poor unfortunates who have passed away to
their just rewards so they are just hanging around so to speak. It's
getting pretty crowded with all the undead souls running around getting in
everyone's way. The Archchancellor is finally made aware of the problem
when the Wizard Wendell Poons of the Unseen University passes on - or
should I say - doesn't pass on due to Death's absence. He therefore calls
upon the mighty wizard Rincewind to gather the ingredients so they can
perform the ceremony that will summon Death back. Hence begins Rincewind
and his loyal luggage's next adventure - to track down Death and convince
him to return to the job.
As with Discworld, the game is broken out into four acts and you don't go
on to the next act until you have completed the one before, but you can
visit any location that is labeled on the map by a mere click of the
mouse. The puzzles as in the first game run the gambit from semi-logical
to rather obscure. But I think in the second one the puzzles were a tad
easier.
Game installs in W95/98 and is mouse controlled.
A great game IMHO and almost as hard to find as the first one I am sorry
to say.
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