🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Mark Taylor wrote:

> thya...@sol.com.br wrote:
> 
> > My incompetence? I think not. If I failed to choose the right lamp in a
> >totally random puzzle, than it means I wasn't very lucky. If you got the right
> >one the first time you played, than congratulations, chances of that happening
> >are of 20%, since there are ABSOLUTELY NO CLUES to what lamp you should be
> >needing by the end of the game. 
> 
> ROFL!
> 
> You have picked one of the MOST LOGICAL puzzles in the game to knock!
> There is at least one cut scene between the vizier and the genie where
> the lamp is in foreground on the desk. 'Course, if you weren't paying
> attention.....

	Now, you see, that is one of the big problems I had with the game.
Yes, it is possible to see the lamp there and thus know which one you are
supposed to pick, but there is >no< way for ALEXANDER to know which lamp
to pick.  It is only because the player sees the cut scene that they are
able to instruct Alexander which lamp is the correct one.  From
Alexander's point of view, he does not >see< the cut scene, so >any< lamp
he picks is just a guess.  That really >does< bug me, so it still makes
the puzzle a poor one in my opinion.  Is there a way to figure out the
correct lamp?  Yes.  Is there a way for >Alexander< to figure out the
correct lamp?  No.

> FWIW, I have enjoyed the more recent KQs even though they have flaws.
> What game doesn't? But if you MUST denigrate the game, at least choose
> a valid excuse!

	I think it >is< valid, just not the way he explained it.

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