Five stories in a fantasy city setting. You play five stock fantasy characters, each pursuing the same goal, but with different abilities and limitations and (most interestingly) different ways of perceiving the world. You'll have to see things from everyone's perspective to understand what has happened and what is about to happen, and even then, the details of the backstory can be confusing. Good design and puzzles. Each chapter can in theory be solved alone, but each contains information that makes other chapters easier; it's suggested that you switch between characters frequently.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (08 Dec 2002)

a.txt (805 bytes)

walkthrough for the Adventurer chapter

d.txt (377 bytes)

walkthrough for the Dragon chapter

e.txt (862 bytes)

walkthrough for the Enchanter chapter

heroes.txt (97 bytes)

documentation

heroes.z5 (195.50 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: 1, as entered in 2001 Competition)

r.txt (657 bytes)

walkthrough for the Royalty chapter

t.txt (412 bytes)

walkthrough for the Thief chapter

walkthru.txt (688 bytes)

comment on the walkthroughs

heroes.zip (112.93 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: 2), solution