🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Raymond  Phathanavirangoon wrote:

> What deisgn fault?  You DON'T need the lamp to finish the game!!!! I have
> stated that MANY times before!  There are 4 ways to finish the game, and
> if you missed something, you could always use another route to pass.  So I
> DON'T think the "design" flaw you mention DOES exist.  

	Yes, it DOES.  Whether you need the lamp or not is irrelevant.
You are using information obtained as the player to solve a puzzle as
>Alexander<.  Whether or not you need the lamp to finish the game, that is
>poor< puzzle design.

> I wouldn't say either were lousy...although I think Monkey Island II was
> nowhere near as good as the original.  That damn
> monocle-asd-replacement-for-eye-that-sees-the-world puzzle STILLL
> infuriates me.  Now THAT was an example of an obscure puzzle.

	<shakes head>
	To think that people like >this< are playing computer games today.
<sigh>

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