Gobliiins

STORY / GAMEPLAY
King Angoulafre is attacked by an evil entity, armed with a voodoo doll and a bunch of pins. As the pins are stucked in, the king starts jumping up and down on his seat. Three of the Kingdom's favorite goblins, Oups, Ignatius and Asgard, are called to help their King so they set off travelling in unknown and hostile lands to seek and find items that can help their rescue mission. This trio of goblins can be instructed based on their abilities. Pointing and clicking orders them to perform certain activities as you attempt to progress. Oups is a clever one and can pick up, drop or use objects! Asgard is the strongest and can only punch. Ignatius (the elder one) is a small Merlin (the wizard) and casts spells on specific items with interesting results. So, using their unique powers, your ultimate goal is to escape from each scenario and find a collection of potions. The gameplay turns into to a charade of trial and error. Some stages are relatively easy while some others are almost impossible to cope with! Truly, sometimes the solution is not necessarily logical and thus trial and error process is a default! Also, occasionally the goblins do not always respond and react exactly as you ordered them to. Once assigned a task, a goblin cannot be stopped or diverted until the task is carried out. So yes, although its interesting scenario and gameplay, Gobliiins may get too frustrating at times.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics on the DOS version are colorful (up to 200 colors on-screen) as the game supports VGA and look better than the Amiga counterpart. The sprites are beautifully animated and also the game runs faster than the Amiga and ST versions. Each scene is nicely drawn without any impressive touches or special effects and consists of static backdrops that do the job well. The sound on the DOS is rather poor with only a few (but nice) intro tunes and a couple of sampled spot effects during gameplay!