Finished Sierra classic "Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail" by Christie Marx in 6,5 hours!

Not too shabby...

Oh my, what an adventure this was!

After reaching Jerusalem, I had to complete a couple of tasks for the locals. I thought it would cause a domino effect, and it kinda did but not completely. Sometimes one thing led to another, but not always. Took me a bit to satisfy everyone and I even took some notes to solve this puzzle. Hardest part was figuring out where to buy certain items, or even that you COULD buy them to begin with.

Yet another satisfied customer...

Then I faced temptation. Beautiful Fatima tried to seduce me. But I knew it was a TEST! HAHA! You don't fool me, no woman in her right mind would want to seduce me!!!

Didn't stop me from saving, restoring and still kissing her for curiosity's sake... Ah, what a way to go...

<gulp>

Anyways, then I found myself in the catacombs where I had to make another difficult choice: save myself or save my knight Galahad. Messed up my saved games here a bit: had to restore at one point, but I chose the wrong one where I HADN'T saved Galahad yet, but I thought I did, so I "finished" the game, only to die at the last moment...

Good mummy, just stay where you are please...

The goddess Aphrodite helped me along, I had to fight a Saracen which took a couple of tries, and then it was back home to save Camelot and be rewarded with my final score!

Dude, where did you come from, and how long have you been waiting here for someone to play this game again?

To be honest, I had expected this game to be harder, but when you follow the leads it's quite logical in all. Did have some trouble with the parser system and finding the correct phrasing (I'd always forget you can SEARCH things after you LOOKED at them...), the riddles were fun, traversing the ice not so much, and the fighting, well, there's not THAT much of it in the game and it didn't take me THAT many tries, so...

I have chosen wisely!

So, looking ahead now, I got some options. I'll definitely be playing "Conquest of the Longbow" some day, but first I'd like to finally tackle "King's Quest V" again. I'm a bit afraid of that game, though, so perhaps I'll do a shorter one first, a replay this time, namely "Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel" (I have the VGA remake).

I have some time to decide, though, since I should first finish my review of "Chronique des Silencieux" for Adventure Game Hotspot, and continue helping out testing Wadjet Eye's new game...