Les Manley in: Search for the King

The Good
The developers can't be faulted in creating a game-world that is engaging and pleasant to be in. The character, Les, is easy to empathise with (he's nerdy!) and the music is excellent.

The Bad
I bought this game on e-bay in 2004, and playing it now feels very retro. Those who are familiar with text-adventures and parser-based games like this probably find it easy and natural to enter commands in word by word via a keyboard. I found it irritating and fiddley, and I can understand why the genre died out. Copy protection kicks in several times in the game, which was a pain too, and another reminder of the game's age.

The Bottom Line
Its a great adventure game, but not quite up there with the best partly because its so short, and partly because of the aforementioned faults .

As a gamer playing both Les Manley games for the first time in 2005, I preferred the second (Lost in LA), but both are fun and worth taking a peek at.