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Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017

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From: Mike S.
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 13:16
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On Mon, 8 May 2017 22:13:59 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

>I don't think I played it for more than a half-hour, so I'm not sure
>if my experience is indicative.  It's probably not as hard as Wizardry
>4 overall but the difficulty is different.  Asylum is basically a text
>adventure game with graphics, so it's all about figuring what you need
>to type rather than hoping the random number generator will go your way.
>
>					Ross Ridge

I used to play a lot of text adventures, with and without graphics,
and I found them all difficult. I am very bad at puzzle solving. I
have no idea why I like a genre that I am bad at but I do. Thank god
for hint books.
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