STARSHIP TITANIC HINTS TRIAL

You move from location to location by hunting the navigation points from the scenes, some of which are harder to find than others. This one is stuck in a loop.Īs I briefly mentioned, the game itself is a 1st-person adventure, with pre-rendered backgrounds in the style of Myst.

As a side note, now defunct Terry Jones actually wrote a novelization of the game, so if you don't want to play it, you might want to read it instead. This is, perhaps, helped by the voice cast as well, which, has some pretty recognisable names in it, from Terry Jones and John Cleese (who did his role as a smart bomb under a pseudonym Kim Beard) to Adams himself. Nonetheless, the humour of the game did give me a couple of chuckles here and there. This isn't really a surprise, considering the writer, though I do have to add, this might not be the sharpest writing from Douglas Adams. The dialogue of the game, and therefore the comedy elements of it, is pretty solid. These grumpy robots are one of the constant annoyances of the game, really, as you do need to re-check their attitude from time to time, as only sanction your buffoonery to a certain point. Other than that, you can use the parser to pick their brain on various matters and try to squeeze hints out of them, especially after you get to the robot behaviour centre, from where you can alter their mood into a more serviceable mode. the biggest surprise is, that the game actually is rather good in determining what you are trying to say and on a couple of occasions, you do have to give at least seemingly complex commands to the robots via talking to them. This parser is used when talking with robots. One of the main features of Starship Titanic is, besides the back then rather nicely rendered art deco style spaceship, the parser system the game has along with its mouse-driven interface. The first appearance, or at least a mention of it, actually is in the HGTTG, where it was described as the most luxurious cruise line ever, which didn't even manage to complete its first message, an S.O.S, before its first trip ended in a catastrophe. The game itself is based on the original idea by Douglas Adams of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-fame and he was in the design of the game as well.

STARSHIP TITANIC HINTS TRIAL

To do this, you need to, in a proper Myst style 90s first-person game style, solve some puzzles ranging from easy to trial and error hard. The main goal of the game is to locate the missing modules of the AI Titania, who is currently in hibernation mode in her command centre. So, like any sane person, you decide to follow the robot to take a trip on the most magnificent luxury tourist starship ever built.Īfter a rather rude reception bot grudgingly signs you with the lowest quality cabin, the journey can truly begin.

Imagine chillaxing at your home, just about to pop in a CD in your state of the art computer of 1998, when a huge metal fin crashes in your roof and a ditzy robot appears, urging you to get in the spaceship because the AI system has gone haywire. Starship Titanic (1998), concept, story and script by Douglas Adams, developed by The Digital Village, published by Simon & Schuster Interactive

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