| Review: | Hell has been modernized, with bureaucracy and tacky suburban
housing replacing the traditional fire and brimstone. As
a newly departed soul, you get to explore this wonderland and
perhaps seek a way out. Wide-ranging settings, some hellish,
some not, some taking subtle advantage of the fact that you're dead.
Very puzzlish puzzles (including simple logic problems), with
good re-use of puzzle elements. Lots of hidden objects, with some
inconsistency about finding them - "examine x" will sometimes find
things that "search x" will not. Impossible to die (for obvious
reasons) or otherwise make the game unwinnable, unless you're
unlucky enough to hit a bug involving some randomized values.
Rating: ****
Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)
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