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I'm usually a passive observer in such things, but this is a special case, so I'll speak up. This is... the scariest map I've ever played, and the author is guilty of sabotaging my sleep schedule 🤣

I came across an unfinished version for a contest, and even then, I was lost to society for several evenings. The final version was a little easier; I already knew where to sail for additional heroes and how to quickly assemble a combat-ready squad, but I still had to work hard – and not so much because of the battles, but because of the puzzles. Some of them were difficult even on the second try. That puzzle where you have to arrange creatures by their strength level, using only two arrows, haunted my nightmares 🤣🤣🤣 Many things blew my mind. How, well, how do you implement blackjack, Battleship, darts, a cinematic ending, and many other scary words in the fourth game's engine? But it turns out you can.
The map's concept also appealed to me. I love the theme of travel, discovery, boldly going where no one has gone before, and all that. It fit perfectly here. From the second playthrough, there was no longer that sense of novelty, anticipation, and the desire to find out what surprise awaits me next, but it was still very enjoyable and interesting to play, and a couple of new quests appeared. Again, there's some replayability due to the randomness of opening the portal to the Island of Truth and all that.

I was confused by the puzzle with the island of sunken ships, where you had to arrange the ships according to certain conditions, so that there were as many on the algae as on the clear water, no more than one ship in each row, etc. I read the conditions, calculated on paper, and everything was fine. I started arranging them – and it didn't count. I went into the editor – I arranged the ships correctly, but for some reason, the values of the numbers there are different. Either I read the conditions incorrectly, or something else. Maybe I messed up because I was playing until five in the morning 🤣

I haven't read the original book, so I can't judge how well it corresponds. But even without knowing the original, the plot and text inserts are enjoyable. The humor is sometimes funny, sometimes an acquired taste, sometimes an acquired taste, but still funny. I especially enjoyed the picture gallery; I was laughing hysterically at each exhibit 🤣🤣🤣

I hope there will be more content in this style; I really liked it, and there are never too many good RPG maps for the fourth game, and this is probably the best and most interesting map, at least one of them. The level of difficulty, the virtuosity of using the editor, and writing scripts – it's something on a new level. I desperately want more of this content.
But maybe not. Otherwise, I'll be staying up until five in the morning again 🤣
А, вот почему.

🏹🎪+⛓️♿=💕