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''Zork: Grand Inquisitor'' is a 1997 graphic adventure game developed by Activision and released for Windows and Macintosh. It builds upon the ''Zork'' and ''Enchanter'' series of interactive fiction video games originally released by Infocom, and sees players attempting to restore magic to Zork, solving puzzles and using spells. The game features a notable cast of characters, with stars including Erick Avari, Michael McKean, Amy D. Jacobson, Marty Ingels, Earl Boen, Jordana Capra, Dirk Benedict, and Rip Taylor. ''Zork: The Undiscovered Underground'' was written and released as a promotional prequel to the game. ==Gameplay== ''Zork: Grand Inquisitor'' is a first-person point-and-click adventure game that allows the player to have a 360 degree view of a majority of the pre-rendered location (dubbed "Z-Vision"). This visual freedom applies to the horizontal axis only; looking up and down is restricted, although possible in some locations, while in other locations, the view is fixed. Like Zork Nemesis players move around by left clicking the mouse when the cursor changes to an arrow (to move to another location), golden when over an interactive item (like a door), or a hand when something can be picked or dropped in a spot (like a rope). In addition to playing as themselves, the players also play as three other characters at specific moments in the game to recover important items. When the player dies, which can occur in certain spots through mis-timed or wrong actions, the game cuts to a computer terminal on which the player's fatal action and its consequences appear in prose form, much in the fashion of the original ''Zork'' trilogy, complete with a score and the player's rank. The game utilizes an inventory system, which stores items the player finds in the game, and can be accessed by right-clicking. Items can be viewed by placing them on a special device that brings an up-close view of them. In addition, the inventory also stores important items, such as a spellbook, and a bag of zorkmids (Zork's currency). When not in the inventory, players can find side menus on the top left and top right of the screen that allow quick access to items and spells. Most spells found in the game are added to the player's spell book as they are discovered, and include ''rezrov'', ''throck'', ''obidil'' and ''snavig'', amongst others, many of which originated in Infocom's original series of ''Zork'' and ''Enchanter'' games. Much of the humour within the game stems from various sources, including the ludicrous Inquisition policies and propaganda. Example humorous quotes found in the game include: * 'Shun magic, and shun the appearance of magic. Shun everything, and then shun shunning.' - Grand Inquisitor, Mir Yannick * 'I hate adventurers...' - Inquisition Guard, after the player magically seals them in a tent. * 'Your sword's blowing glue! Let me try that again... Your sword's glowing blue!' - Dalboz * 'I heisted a whole lot from the Inquisition. Well... I know a guy, who knows a guy who heisted them, and I paid him.' - Antharia Jack * 'This is a paid announcement: "The Grand Inquisitor rules!"' - Voice of the Inquisition (voice provided by David Lander) * 'And never forget who is the boss of you — Me! I am the boss of you!' - Grand Inquisitor, Mir Yannick * 'The Underground Underground. It's a subway! It's a political movement! It's a subway and a political movement!' - Dalboz The game also makes frequent use of self-parody, containing numerous references to staples and clichés of the traditional adventure genre. One example come from two items almost invariably found and heavily used in almost all Zork games - a tattered map and an elven sword, which are found in a glass case at the start of the game, with the notice above it saying: "In case of adventure, break glass!" Another example is Antharia Jack, whose character is a parody of Indiana Jones. ''Zork: Grand Inquisitor'' was one of the first computer games to include true closed captioning so that the hearing impaired could play without missing any of the sound effects and spoken dialog in the game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zork: Grand Inquisitor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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