Classic time: "Les Manley in: Search for The King"

New game!

I don't know why I never played the Les Manley games by Accolade before. I think it's because I had the assumption they were just Leisure Suit Larry clones, too sexual themed for my taste. Turns out that's totally not the case for Les Manley in: Search for The King. 

What a crummy office...

Les Manley works for a television network that has just launched a competition to get more viewers. The first person who succeeds in sending in a photograph of the legendary musician The King will win one million dollars! Of course Les jumps on this opportunity and plans to take a snapshot of The King during his lunch break.

Saw that coming from a mile away...

I didn't take long to get my first death scene. I could easily have avoided it but I didn't really know what else to do so I just went for it. This is a text parser game, predating the point 'n click era, which makes it very hard to find the things you need. Especially when the first command you would normally type - look around - doesn't provide any clues whatsoever. You get a description, but it doesn't mention anything you might examine next.

Looks like a fun place...

After leaving the office, I found a couple of other locations without any clear goals of what to do there. There's a bus station that doesn't seem to lead anywhere, and a circus where I got eaten by a lion. I was also accidentally launched all the way to the other side of the United States by walking onto the High Striker platform. Looks like I'm actually supposed to do that, but I got a message that I probably didn't have all necessary inventory items with me yet, so I guess I softlocked myself there...

Where's Reece Witherspoon?

I did succeed in earning myself a free ticket from the circus director by helping him out with the elephants, though it took me several tries in formulating the right commands in the text parser. But after one hour of playing, I still have no clear idea of what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm just trying stuff out and hoping for no more death scenes or softlock instances. I better dust off my English vocabulary and try to beat this text parser mechanic...

You can find Les Manley in: Search for The King on Steam and on GOG!