Complete this game and become a member of the revered "Elite order of XOR". Not too many people have achieved this mentally taxing feat over the years. In this tile based puzzle game, you move two shields around a succession of individual maze-like levels and the goal is to collect all masks and escape the level with at least one of the two shields intact. The two shields must effectively co-operate with each other in order to complete each level.
You'll be hindered by a variety of obstacles such as walls, chicken, fish, dolls etc.. Chicken and fish are used to explode so-called "horizontal bombs" and "vertical bombs" in order to blow through walls etc.. gaining access to further parts of the level.
The first level serves as an introduction to the game and is very simple to complete. In-game elements are succesively introduced during the first few levels. However, some of the later levels take a great deal of careful thought to work out a solution, sometimes necessitating the sacrifice of one of the two shields. There is no arcade or timing element to the game. There's also no time limit, with all the time in the world to work out a solution. Some of the levels have some quite diabolical puzzles, but the satisfaction on completion makes it all worthwhile.
XOR is one of the very best puzzle/logic games available on the speccy platform. Highly recommended for fans of the genre. (This one is very similar to the curses-based "Enigma" game as found on the "Monochrome" BBS system, for anyone who has ever seen that).
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