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Perhaps
it's a sign of the changing times we live in -- either
that or it's because the game was no good in the first
place -- but the Bearded One just didn't click with
this one. As the title implies, it's a Pythonesque romp
through locations strange and devious in the search
of the Holy Grail. You take the part of Sir Tappin,
a name which may have aroused a few laughs when it came
out but surely isn't going to get many now, and you'll
come across the Knights who say Nic (or Lic, or Hic)
and an exploding rabbit.
The
program has some reasonable graphics, though they tend
to be a bit repetitive and are not up to the standard
one expects these days, even with budget games. They
do, however, give you something to look at, which is
just as well because the game doesn't exactly grab you
by the sleeves and demand 100% concentration.
A
number of the locations simply despatch you to sudden
death when you first enter them. In fact, sudden death
is a strong point in this program -- if it can possibly
find a way of killing you off in a location, thereby
forcing you to load a saved game or start again, it
will. So if you're not killed in the street, you'll
be killed indoors -- in my case by a large gob of green
snot flicked at me by a guard. If you're the type of
person who fails over backwards laughing at that type
of thing, then go out and buy this game. If, like me,
you find the smile frozen on your face, then save your
cash for something better.
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