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Beat the Devil

Author:Robert M. Camisa
Genres:Humor>Satire
Fantasy>Mythological>Afterlife
Released:1999
Review:

Another entry in the ever-expanding genre of hell- or Satan-themed games, but a pretty good one. Hell is a shopping mall, and the seven deadly sins are embodied in various forms somewhere in the mall, and you have to find and defeat them. Not as funny as it might be--the humor is sometimes a bit sophomoric--but the writing's reasonably solid and the puzzles are fairly creative. One particularly good puzzle recalls one of the better moments in Leather Goddesses of Phobos, no small feat. There are some bugs and design errors, but on the whole this works well.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (24 Aug 2000)

Competitions/
Awards:
9th place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 1999
Play Online:Play it at ifiction.org: Release 4
Related Links:SPAG review
Downloads:
btd2.inf (94.83 KB)
Inform source code (version: Release 1)
btd2.z5 (96.50 KB)
Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 1)
walkthru.txt (2.86 KB)
Walkthrough


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