Players has chosen
to saddle its latest game with
this unpronouncable and rather
forgettable name. It's a pity,
because the game is anything
but forgettable.
Anfractuos is an old-fashioned
arcade-adventure in the
Dynamite Dan mould. With
your little robot, you float about
the screen, avoiding the
meanies moving through a
surprisingly tricky maze of
tunnels. You're stuck in an
abandoned mine on the
planetoid Anfractuos, and to
escape you must collect eight
fuel cans which'll enable your
shuttle to blast to safety. The
cans are hidden randomly, and
usually in the most inaccessible little crannies.
Confusing the issue are
various one-way lifts which
often lead to dead ends,
leaving you with no choice but
to abort. You have four lives,
but there are power points
around the place to pep you
up, although naturally they too
seem to be in the most
awkward of places.
Still, that's part of the
challenge of the arcade-adventure - sorting out where
to go, and remembering once
you've worked it out. Once
you've found your eight fuel
cans, you must disable four
switches scattered about the
place, and then it's a race
against time to get back to your
shuttle and lift off to safety.
It's a good little game, even if
some of the coding seems a
little rushed at times. But I like
it, and if you remember 1984,
you might like it too!
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