S.O.L.O. (2021) Walkthrough + Review, ZX Spectrum
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Year 2.433 Planet Tartessos - Unexpectedly, humans leaves the mining planet, abandoning hundreds of robots to their fate under the sole tutelage of an artificial intelligence called I. S. A. C. The extractions of ETHER ( A valuable substance unique in the Galaxy) are beginning to affect the circuitry and positronic minds of some of the robots.
The 3 Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
… 100 Years Later …
You are controlling a S.O.L.O. droid ( slot one, level one), and it has a single expansion slot, which allows it to use different upgrades, but only one at a time. Taking an upgrade immediately deactivates the previous one.
You start in the Hangar and the strange substance called ETHER has infected all the other robots, making them forget the existence of the three laws. They are now lethal to you and you have to avoid them or kill them, which can be done if you have the electric firing upgrade.
Every time you have completed a stage you will have to go outside to get to the next one. Outside there is also the spacecraft, and you will find out what you need to find next to get it to work.
There 5 stages: Hangar, Organic, Cold Zone, Drainage, The Mine. On the four of these stages you need to find stuff for the spacecraft, and the spacecraft also provides a stage and a boss fight.
You can get all kind of upgrades so you can fly, shoot, heat up so you can melt ice etc. You have to make your way to a lot of keys so you can open the locked doors, and you also need to solve puzzles by pushing blocks and use magnets to come to places.
There is a huge variety in this game, many different stages and a lot of super cool music to enjoy (especially the music in The Mine rocks 17:20). This game has it's very own style and is quite original, the graphics is great looking and detailed with lots of colors.
Available in both English and Spanish versions!
The game was made with MPAGD in 2021 by:
Angel Colaso (Roolandoo): Idea, Code and Graphics
Sergey Kosov (MmcM): Music
Rating = 92%
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