Tiki Taca (Atic Atac Remake 2019) Walkthrough (with Wizard) + Review, ZX Spectrum

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INTRODUCTION (from Atic Atac manual):
I never did believe in Ghosts or Monsters... Not until now, not until the Main doors of the Castle closed and locked themselves behind me... There's no key here!!! I'm trapped!!! HELP!!!... HEELLLPPPP!!!!... No-one can hear me... I'm alone... Why do the doors open and slam shut??!!... Is anybody there??... HHEELLLLPPPP!!!!... I can see strange shapes materialising on the other side of the room... Evil eyes glaring at me... Footsteps... Somethings coming down the corridor... Something large... Something cold... I must run quickly... QUICKLY... HHEELLLLPPPP!!!!... I must escape before it's too late!!!!!
REVIEW:
Now that you have been trapped in the evil haunted Castle, your object is to find the hidden Golden Key of A.C.G. and escape via your only exit, the Main Doors.
The Castle consists of 5 floors, including the 'Atic' and the caverns, which contain countless rooms. Within the many rooms you may find furniture, food, drink, objects, Ghosts, Ghouls and Monsters. Eat and drink sparingly so that you do not deplete your food supply. Collect and utilise any objects you find to your best advantage, be wary of slamming doors and working trapdoors which will try to trap you and avoid contact with all the Ghouls and Monsters, as each of these will use their best endeavours to hamper your search.
Each of the characters, Knight, Surf and Wizard, are armed with their own specific weapons, individual movement type and use of one set of secret passages, unbeknown to the others. These are hidden behind clocks, barrels and bookcases. The passages will generally lead to another room on the same floor, except for the barrel on the ground floor which leads you to a room on the first floor. The passages can only be used by certain characters. Barrels only work for serfs, clocks work for knights and bookcases for wizards.
If you run into any of the monsters then you will lose some of your food supply. This is shown as a Turkey which turns to bones unless you find some new food you can eat. There are some lethal monsters; the Hunchback, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Devil. Those you can repel, but not kill, with special objects you can find.
The game is pretty tough because you can only carry three keys at a time, so you will need to take some decisions when you take and drop keys, and you might need to come back and do some swapping later. The Golden Key you need to escape is in three parts which means that you can have none of the other keys at the last part of the game, so you will have to use the holes in the floors and the shortcuts to succeed. The keys are placed randomly so it is a new game every time, and a map comes in very handy for playing this game. If you have an old Atic Atac map you can just use that because the placement of the rooms and things is the same in this version.
Tiki Taca is an accurate isometric remake of Atic Atac. It has the same number of rooms and floors on the same places and plays the same as the original game. I never was a fan of the original game, I found the color clash and the sound annoying. This has been fixed now - Okay, the game is now in b/w, but it is done very well and you hardly notice, and the doors and keys has colors. The sound fx is improved, and by converting the game into isometric style you got some more space in the rooms, which I think is also an improvement.
Most of the new isometric has been written with “3D Game Maker”, but this has not been used here, which shows as there is no slow down when there is many enemies on the screen, and that would usually happen for a 3D GM game.
This is a nice pimped up version, it plays and controls well, and is a good looking isometric game!
The game was made by Climacus in 2019.
Rating = 91%
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