Dizzy Y: Return to Russia Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum
69A walkthrough of the ZX Spectrum game, Dizzy Y: Return to Russia. This is the English version of the unofficial Russian sequel. From the recording originally sent to http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/ . Some notes from the submitter:
Dizzy Y: Return to Russia
RZX by Jim Waterman, 13 April 2017
Recorded using Spectaculator 8.0 - playing time 26:48
In 1993, the ZX Spectrum exited stage left in the UK and shuffled off for a quiet retirement in the land of vodka, ushankas and matryoshka dolls. Some ingenious Russians had already found a way to bypass the notoriously heavy restrictions on Western goods in the days of the Soviet Union, and assembled home-brew Spectrums from the parts that were available to them. They even wrote some of their own games on their parts-bin machines, and it seems they liked Codemasters' Dizzy series as much as I do...
Dizzy X: Journey to Russia was released in 1994, based on the game engine from Magicland Dizzy; it was written in Russian and eventually translated into English once word had spread that these Russian hacks existed and there was interest in playing them from those of us who are significantly less fluent in Russian. The sequel, Dizzy X2: Return to Russia followed in 1995, still based on Magicland Dizzy - as are the vast majority of these Russian games - and was soon updated to Dizzy Y, under the same subtitle. The gameplay is identical to Dizzy X2, there are just a few graphical changes with the title bar (which I think looked better with its Russian Orthodox cathedral instead of the hammer and sickle), the objects, and the characters Dizzy gets to interact with. It is this updated version which was translated into English in 2004, and that's the version I'm playing here.
Once I'd worked out the tricker of the puzzles (with help from a Russian solution - - and Google Translate!) I found this is a game I could, most likely, finish without Rollback. I've still used it, though, mainly to get rid of any unnecessary fannying about trying to grab the stone in the Draconion's cave. Otherwise, it's all plain sailing.
It's worth noting that in the original Russian, Dizzy's first line to the trader is:
"Хелоу! Дую спик Енглиш?"
...which is an excellent bilingual bonus for those of us who can read Cyrillic script. In this version, as you'll see, English Dizzy asks the Russian trader if he speaks Russian, and the trader prefers English...
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