Kentilla

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Description

Kentilla is a text adventure with graphics. It is a sequel to an earlier text adventure by Derek Brewster, Velnor's Lair.

At the end of the previous game, Velnor was vanquished and his soul was hurled through the void into the flames of the Abyss. In the spilt second that the corridor was opened Grako returned from the Abyss and now controls the source of Velnor's power, the Moonstone of Aigrath. The object of the game is to defeat Grako and to return him to the flames of the Abyss. In this the player is aided by the mystical sword Kentilla and companions such as Elva, who can carry things as well as perform tasks and fight.

The game's text parser, in addition to accepting the normal commands of 'Go North' and 'Get item' allows the player to issue commands to others such as 'Say To Elva "Get Moss"'.

The game also plays music while the game is in progress.

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Alternate Titles

• "Kentila" -- Title screen title (early version)

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Critic Reviews

Crash!	ZX Spectrum	Nov, 1984	10 out of 10	100
Zzap!	Commodore 64	Jun, 1986	90 out of 100	90
Home Computing Weekly	ZX Spectrum	Nov 06, 1984		80
Tilt	Commodore 64	Dec, 1986		67
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Dec, 1984	6 out of 10	60
Popular Computing Weekly	ZX Spectrum	Oct 18, 1984		60
Tilt	Amstrad CPC	Jun, 1987	9 out of 20	45
Amtix!	Amstrad CPC	Feb, 1987	41 out of 100	41

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Reissue issues

The Spectrum re-release of the game was unfinishable due to two bugs, despite the fact that the original release worked correctly. Firstly, the game wrongly tells the player that they can't take the silver dagger when they see it, and secondly Eva wrongly refuses to perform a crucial action. Both can be fixed by hacking into the BASIC code, page 84 of issue 22 of Your Sinclair magazine explains how.