Name
Robots of Gemrule
Author
Baby Bonnie Hood 
Category
Game
Release Date
2012-04-12
Rating
(4/5)
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Version
1.0
Requires MegaZeux 2.83 or newer.
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Robots of Gemrule
A MZX remake of the ZZT game by Alexis Janson. The robots are being sent away from the planet by their queen! Find out why, and maybe put a stop to it...
Maxim  said:
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Robots of Gemrule is a very good Megazeux edition of the ZZT game. There's a lot of wrong ways to do ZZT conversions, especially with the automated converter.

But this one is more like an update that uses some of the Megazeux features not available in ZZT while still being an accurate recreation. These are small changes, but could mostly be considered improvements. Some rooms are expanded to be bigger than a single screen, for instance. Torches are replaced by a permanent item with no time limit, which could arguably either be an improvement or an issue.

It's faithful enough that you can get permanently trapped in puzzles or run out of ammo. You should probably have multiple save files just in case. It's not a very long game, but you may want to start over a few times after learning how things work so you can get as much ammo and health as possible. Mostly ammo. The game has more than enough health items.

The music selection is all songs from the Zeux series. Just my opinion, but I think it would have been better to have either similar sounding modules that weren't used in the Zeux games or no music like in the original. That certainly would have made one of the puzzles a bit easier. I feel the Zeux music doesn't fit here as well as it did in the Zeux series, even if Chronos Stasis is marginally similar.

Worth checking out. Nearly supersedes the original game, which is saying something.