Sun Jan 12 2003 11:02 Comic Irish Songs Head On "My Music!": Second In A Series:
Father O'Flynn
One of my remarks in the review was that I wished people would come up with interesting puzzles combining objects from the different games cloned by Rocks'n'Diamonds. Well, a while ago I heard from a fellow who calls himself Equinox "Eq" Tetrachloride. He's written a bunch of R'n'D levels, and sent them to me to try out. They're the cleverest levels I've played yet, and they mix items from different games in interesting ways (in one exciting level, you must complete the first level of Sokoban while being chased by a butterfly monster from another game). Hopefully Eq will put up his R'n'D levels for general consumption.
Eq has this to say about the mysterious yellow gemstones into which you decompose when you die in R'n'D (Yellow gemstones are made from people! THEY'RE PEOPLE!):
Sun Jan 12 2003 22:39 Previously, on Game Roundup...:
I tried to do an Aaron Sorkin-type intro here, but my review of Rocks'n'Diamonds is notably deficient in characters running around saying pithy things that advance the plot. Indeed, it is deficient in scenes, characters, dialogue, or plot of any sort, because it's a review of a game, and not one of those fancy reviews that looks on the surface like a dialogue concerning two world systems. So let's take it as read that I earlier wrote a review of Rock'n'Diamonds.
It was originally a Boulder Dash thing, as you probably know. [I didn't. -ed. Me neither.] I
suppose it's like Sonic the Hedgehog being hit and losing all
the rings he collected. In R'n'D, the other coloured gems come
from other things, like player 2 being killed or a mole being
smashed.
