Man! I'm having a good time!

[DrPaul]

How many of you guys have played Zork Zero lately, or ever?  I never got very far in it before.   But I've made a serious effort this weekend, and I can't describe how much fun I'm having with it.

There are so many cool things.  Things that are familiar from some of the graphic games, but more so and more interactive.  For instance, you go to the Inquisition.  You're not just watching Antharia Jack stand in line.  *You* take a number and *you* are standing in line.  

But what's really cool is you can take the Great Underground Highway (starting at the Crossroads) and travel to Port Foozle.   There, you can go into the Casino and actually play a real hand of Double Fanucci.  That was so cool!  I mean, we hear about Double Fanucci all the time and how crazy the rules are all that.  But to actually play!  What a kick!  I can't tell you how much fun that was.  And for the first time I actually saw what the Fanucci cards really look like.   The different suits, the Royal cards.  I read about them before in the Encyclopedia Frobozzica, but there were no pictures.  For instance, what's a Fromp look like?  Now I know.

You also go to Antharia and Mareilon and Fenshire.  Not to mention Flatheadia where most of the game takes place.

Anyway, I'm ashamed to say that, far from completing Zork Zero, I never even got very far.  But now that I'm really giving it a serious try, I don't think I've ever had as much fun in a Zork game.  I'm just so excited, I had to post something.

If you haven't played it before, give it a try.  It will make the whole world new again.

[Siriusstar]

I played Zork Zero for the first time ten years ago in November. It was my first Zork game and my first Infocom game.  I got the Mystery Collection for Sherlock, but the all text format was a bit off-putting, so I played Zork Zero, which at least had SOME graphics.

I was immediately hooked.  It has such a huge range of puzzles and locations, it's incredible. The thing I really liked was that there are so many places to explore that if you get stuck, you can always try something else for awhile. I got rather good at Double Fanucci. I won a game without using a Trebled Fromp.  I just kept restoring and playing for fun.  

I didn't know anything about Zork, so the ending came as huge surprise. It's just as good to replay, too. I got all the Zork in-jokes I was clueless about the first time around.  Not to mention the fun of *living* Zork history!

I envy you getting to finish it for the first time now. The ending is very well done and really quite intense. (especially when you don't know what's going to happen!)

[DrPaul]

I just finished Zork Zero after 2716 moves.  I've been saving my transcripts, but I got so excited at the end, I forgot to save and lost the transcripts for the endgame.  I guess I will have to restore and replay it so that I can have a record of the whole thing.

What a cool game!  But it is BIG.  Even using a walkthrough, it took me about a week to complete.  It would have taken months without the hints.

[Baryon]

I agree. Zork Zero is certainly my favorite of the Zork games I've played for these reasons.

'Hanging from roots', under the world, is a great location. Especially if you let go.