Hi Thomas and all,
Well, just downloaded the Monty Patch. I must say I'm very impressed. Two
weeks to fix all those bugs? Maybe it's just me but it seems pretty fast.
I like the new jumping feature (though it did take some getting used to
when you're trying to grab that gem to your left while you're climbing a
rope). The view mode was pretty cool as well. I did still notice one or two
spots where I'd die unexpectedly while jumping, but I'm beginning to wonder
about that. Of the two times this has happened to me since downloading and
installing the patch, neither of them occurred when there wasn't a monster
of one kind or another in the immediate area. The first time it happened
while I was grabbing the scroll piece and there was the rolling skull right
there. It stands to reason that while jumping, Angela hit the skull and it
must have been able to hit her in just the right way that it proved fatal.
The second time happened while I was jumping over the lava pits and the
spider was right there. Is it possible that monsters can knock you off edges
if they hit you just right? I know this can happen in games like
Castlevania, and it happened quite frequently in Zelda II: Adventure of
Link. Sometimes an Octorock or Moblin could hit you while you were jumping
over a lava pit and the attack would knock you backwards into the lava. I'm
wondering if we're seeing some of the same thing in Monty. Like I said, this
has only happened so far when there's been a monster right there, like right
by the scroll or the torch (although I haven't died while grabbing the torch
since I installed the patch). All in all it seems much more solid and I have
noticed a marked improvement in my ability to time my jumps over the snakes
and spiders, both thanks to the new monster detection and the better audio
processing. Makes me look forward to the rest of the game. And now that I
have my new Laptop with WinXP (although the new JAWS I'm installing on it
isn't here yet), I can download Monty on my own machine and see how well it
works. Apparently it has an 80-gig hard drive so hopefully there shouldn't
be too many problems with the performance.
It ain't pretty when the pretty leaves you with no place to go.
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