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Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail

If you've never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, of course, all of this will be incomprehensible. But if you have seen the film, Quest will remind you how rich that tattered, muddy medieval satire is — how deeply its jokes may have lodged in your cranium over the years. Even the herky-jerky cheapness of the game's animation dovetails nicely with the original Holy Grail's no-budget wit. By creating a CD-ROM that actually enhances its source material — and then shoots off in rewarding new directions — Idle and the 7th Level gang have, rather amazingly, nailed multimedia's own Grail.

I envy those of you who may play this game without ever having seen the movie. Every tiny humorous detail will be new to you. You may be confused and frightened. This is a truly bizarre world without logic or reason. Things will make no sense and one thing will not lead to another. Don't Panic! This is normal.

Er man til Monty Python, er spillet en ren perle, og efter min mening langt mere underholdende end noget andet adventurespil.

Für eingeschworene Monty-Python-Fans (wie mich) ist das produkt ein absolutes Muß. Es stecken kede Menge kleiner Gags in und um den Kultfilm drin. Die Videos sind klein, aber qualitativ gut, und die wenigen gezeichneten Grafiken stilistisch ans skurrile Geschehen angepaßt. Wenn Sie schon immer mal selbst gegen den Schwarzen Ritter antreten wollten, sollten Sie zu diesem Spiel keinesfalls "NI" sagen. Wenn Sie mit dem Humor nichts anfangen können, werden Sie allerdings viel weniger Sterne als ich sehen.

In the game Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail, your goal is quite obvious—collect the Holy Grail! There are two ways to accomplish this task. You can either select the “Collect the Grail” option from the first screen and the game is over immediately or you can choose to go for it and find your way through a whole bunch of Monty Python silliness. I guess the latter choice should be yours if you do not want to be left with the feeling that you have just wasted a good amount of money buying this game. Even if you have picked the latter option, you still have to count on the amount of time you may end up “wasting” (as a compliment) with this game!

I really don't know how this product would sit with someone who hasn't seen the movie. (There are actually some people who still haven't seen this movie, right?) If you aren't intimately familiar with the source material, buy this game at the risk of your own confusion. It is not an introduction or a substitute, it's a supplement. Rent the video first. Is that too much to ask?