- Release Date: 1993
- Genre: Puzzle
- Style: Adventure Puzzle
Game Description
In System's Twilight, by Sadistic Software, you are put into the form of a small creature living inside a computer system. This creature loves to listen to stories of the days of yore, when all system resources were watched over by the Lords of the System and none could hog more than his or her fair share.But now it seems that the system is breaking down. Parts of it are falling to ruin, and no one seems to care. Can your little creature set things right, so the system can go back to the golden days once more?
~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide
Review: Overall
System's Twilight, by Sadistic Software, is a very unusual game consisting of various kinds of puzzles that are mostly logic puzzles. After your little creature leaves his home base to travel the highways and byways of the system, he can travel along many routes to the eventual end of the game.One, through the workshops, asks you to connect a series of colored breakers with wires. The first puzzle has but three sets of breakers, the later puzzles have more. What's important here is that the wires cannot cross each other, and it never hurts to remember that the best path is not always a straight line.
The Forest asks you to reach a tree opposite your own by creating a path through the branches. You can only go in the direction the branches stretch. Many of them come out to dead ends, so you'll have to remember not only which way you took, but try other paths as well. As you solve the puzzles, as before, they become progressively harder.
The River shore asks you to convert words into other words by modifying the word keys you have. For example, in one of the puzzles, you get the words strife and strain. One of the stations allows you to take the letter "s" off of strain to make "train," which you will need to pass a certain gate.
From there, you find another station that allows you to shorten the word "strife" into "strif." Go back to the station that alphabetizes words to turn "strif" into "first," another word key you will eventually need. And so on. Looking at what you have and knowing what you need and what the stations allow you to do will certainly help you here, as does knowing a bit about language.
Eventually, though, you will come to a big blank wall, because System's Twilight is shareware and you will need to register it to proceed. Even the ending seems to be something of a letdown, but you could say it requires some thought. Many people will feel let down by the ending.
~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide
Review: Enjoyment
Some of the harder puzzles can really make you want to tear your hair out. If you like hard puzzles, this game will give you a good time.~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide
Review: Graphics
Aside from being nice and crisp, the graphics aren't anything to write home about. Just average, really.~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide
Review: Sound
A variety of weird sounds, like "bzip" and "sproing" might make you laugh. Then again, they might not. But the sounds complement the game nicely, even if they do take some getting used to.~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide
Review: Replay Value
Once you have solved the puzzles in the game, there is no real need to return and play them again.~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide
Review: Documentation
Not much, just a "read me" file. However, the game is simple and easy to understand and doesn't need much documentation.~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide
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