So, you control a guy with some kind of Obi Wan robe on him and collect jewels. Once you got enough you can proceed to the exit and onto the next level. That is all. Except the game is extremely ridiculously HARD. Hard as in: hardest that I have come across by far. Difficulty is achieved my the most intelligent level designs ever designed as oppose to shitty controls, microsecond timing, luck and that sort of things. Don't be afraid tho, it starts of easy and gradually gets harder. Being so good I'm surprised it's not more popular and very hard (impossible) to find it on the net. Yep, this also means no Youtube solutions
Game is simple 2D graphic, you look at the game sideways, think Sokoban but not top-down. Things above you fall down but you can move left/right and up/down - exactly like in Boulder Dash. It has tons of levels which are unlocked as you progress (each with two modes: easy and hard), tons of different elements interacting with each other is all kinds of ways, etc. Luckily there is a great built-in tutorial explaining every detail spanning some dozen levels and if that isn't enough you can call a in-game manual from any level without the need to ALT+TAB - light version: F1, or hardcore version: F2 (this one explains ALL in relation to ALL
) - both easily readable and navigable.You can get it from this site: http://crystalshard.net/subterra.htm (there is a sequel there too, but i didn't try it yet)
It comes as a 7MB installer but i think it's only self-extracting zip or something so it should be friendly for everyone. I'm using WinXP so I don't know if it works on other OSs. One important thing that I have to mention: when started, the game will ask you if you want full screen mode - SELECT No! This is because in 1/3 times game crashes/freezes on exit. Only ctrl+alt+del and killing process subterra.exe helps. So I don't know if you could do that if game is in full screen. Apparently, this happens cause of midi music driver but I don't buy that
. That is the only downside I can think of.Enuff with this NilYorkTimes, go play play people!
And the last level... hellish