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hailed it for "an excellent balance of incentive and difficulty", and praised its "excellent" graphics but had some criticism for the sound despite commending its "great" music and awarded it a score of 92%. In 1991,
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gave it five (for the original Spectrum version) and four (for the Amstrad port) TV sets out of five, and
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to fight against the kings so she can steal the five crowns, and has already caused the death of King
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Maroc the Mage has defeated the Lord of Chaos, but now he must stop
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Developer(s)
Graftgold
Publisher(s)
Hewson Consultants
Designer(s)
Steve Turner
Platform(s)
Amstrad CPC
ZX Spectrum
EU
Genre(s)
Action-adventure
Single-player
action-adventure game
Steve Turner
Graftgold
Amstrad CPC
ZX Spectrum
Hewson Consultants
Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie
Morag the Shape-Shifter
Avalon
Saxons
Vortigern
Dumnonia
Merlyn
Amstrad Action
Amtix
Popular Computing Weekly

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