The Final Spire

This plotline was good, but very hard to follow. It might have been better had the original scenario actually been made, because I was suddenly cast into the role of a character that the designer knew but I didn't, and it was quite jolting. This scenario should have been made as a stand-alone scenario, but it really played like a sequel, which hurt it a lot.

Also, random people and things kept acting and happening. Introductions to characters were jarring and too rapid.

The final quest (including the quest to repair the medallion) annoyed me, and the special spells weren’t used until the end, and even then, they were disappointing.

The Mac-PC dialogue bug is present.

Rating: 7.1

A Perfect Forest

Didn't like the end. Got lost in the middle. Other than that, pretty good.

Rating: 6.9

Rats Aplenty

A good humor-based scenario. It was definitely very funny. Smoo is very good at hilarious one-liners, and this scenario is littered with them. My favorite: "It's like it's drilling into your mind and dropping your emotional pants."

Since it was supposed to be funny, most of the people seemed cracked, often delightfully so, but this did make the plot a little hard to follow. I spent rather too long talking to people in Scurftown; they were funny, but I wanted to make sure that I'd talked to everyone, just in case someone said something important, and it took forever.

Likewise, puzzles were good — better than I've seen in BoA so far — but the rat-mirroring-your-footsteps seemed a little buggy. The party didn't walk smoothly around that area, and the rat seemed to hang around long after it should. Also, I'm not sure I ever solved the puzzle; I think I left town and the bridge just came up.

Funny, entertaining, but it could've used a bit more polish (including things as simple as typos, which were present throughout).
Combat was okay. I found myself getting really annoyed at wandering back up out of the Lost City to heal after just about every combat, but this was not a very big deal. And there certainly were rats. Aplenty.

Rating: 7.8

Redwall: Prologue

Lovely. The graphics were particularly striking. Having read the books actually makes it better, not worse, which is unusual. The tasks were original but somewhat annoying.

Rating: 7.4