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In article <1020@aucs.UUCP> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
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>On a different note...  How do you beat the Black Knight.  I have fought
>him several times, pummeling him with fire balls, setting bombs, jumping
>on him, etc, but haven't figured what I can do to beat him.  Am I missing
>something obvious?  ANY HINTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPREACTED.

Spoilers follow


To kill the black knight, just aim your fireballs at his FACE.  After the 
sixth or seventh contact, he'll reel backward and slump over his chair.
After you make the first contact, he will stop moving his shield, and will not
attempt to throw a knife at you.  

Another spoiler...

If you find the guards a nuisance at the higher levels, once you accumulate
bombs, you can set one off in their path.  They will disappear, just like 
when you shoot a fireball at them, but they'll STAY gone.  Another bug?

>All in all, a great game!

Hmmmm...  I liked Dark Castle.  I like BDC less so.  I'll post a more complete
review later on, but this one seems to lack innovative puzzles.  The beginner 
level is simple.  A couple of the scenes are unnecessarily harsh (such as 
falling back to the dungeon after going through a labyrinth).  There seems to 
be a lack of humor throughout.  I don't feel any urge to continue playing
the higher levels, unlike with the first version.  

Does anyone else remember an Apple II game called "Aztec?"  It was quite sim-
ilar to Dark Castle, except had more menaces, gave your character more cap-
abilities (machetes, dynamite, guns), and had a more complex maze.  It also
didn't lock you into modes (BDC, for example, will let you blow up CERTAIN
walls, but nothing else by accident--Aztec would, and would let you get your 
character in some deep sh*t as a consequence).  The theme was more or less 
"Raiders of the Lost Ark."  It seems to me that Dark Castle and BDC have been 
trying to imitate that feel, unsuccessfully.








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