Five Rings (2019) Walkthrough + Review, ZX Spectrum
10Huge playlist archive with games from 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxOanVBhqd3t87jXGouYDyWYymmX-1QAP
Work has eased off and you can get away for a while. So you find yourself driving back to the village. You have no surviving relatives there. So it’s just a sentimental stop off on the drive back home. You remember visiting your auntie. She came back to the village when you were a child. If her time away changed her you couldn’t tell. Now that you think about it she couldn’t have been a hundred and fifteen.
The game starts with you driving in your car when a fox suddenly stands in the middle of the road, and from here you are taken into a mysterious adventure where you have to select between different choices to make the game proceed.
It is a ghost / horror based storyline and you have to explore the village to solve the mystery with some strange symbols, weird rituals and a missing professor. Dark and blue colors has been used a lot in the pictures to set the mood.
This is an interactive illustrated ghost story game with multiple choices, several paths and places to explore, and there is different endings to the game too.
It is nice to see a game like this and if it had been longer and tougher / more challenging, with more choices to select from it would have been really awesome!
The game was made by Simon Daly in 2019.
Rating = 81%
It comes in a bundle with the magazine Woot! And it can be downloaded here: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0035139/Woot2019_Bundle.zip