“Loom” review
An adventure with a twist and probably the most underrated LucasArts game. Music, magic, a whole bunch of swans and absolutely no inventory in this 1990 EGA gem. Tchaikovsky is probably spinning in his grave, but who cares? This short and sweet interactive story will help you relax and kill an hour or so.
Mobygames page: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/loom
The ‘best’ version of this game is probably on the FM Towns computer. This version has 256-color graphics, but no speech and has all of the graphics (close ups) and dialog from the EGA version intact as well as properly recorded music.
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used to love this game so much.. btw, do you know where I can get the latest album by Tchaikovsky?
A beautiful, unique, Lucasarts creation. Always loved it and -incidentally- absolutely loved your review too. Keep it up!
I also was heavily disappointed with the CD version. There is however the excellent FM-Towns version with superb, revamped graphics, great sound quality and all original scenes left in check (from what I’ve heard). Too bad almost none even heard of FM-Towns.
Yeah, I mentioned that in the footnote. 🙂 While FM Towns version is superior to the pc cd one I still feel that VGA graphics don’t quite fit. I can’t quite explain it. Small details just stand out too much for me.
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