As far as D&D style games go, this is about as good as they got on any 8-bit machine. You choose your team of six characters from various kinds of fighters, magic users and the all-important bard who is vital to the party as your only healer to begin with.
There are a huge number of maps, all quite large, filled with monsters and treasures, and some of the later ones are insanely difficult; designed to frustrate your best attempts at mapping them with spinners and teleports all over the place. As you play, a storyline begins to emerge which eventually leads to a suitably dramatic conclusion.
That said, I'll have to knock a point off as the Spectrum version has lacklustre graphics and no sound making it very much the poor relation of them all. It's also a multi-load from hell, which isn't so bad if you've got the +3 version or are playing it on an emulator, but the tape version isn't for the faint hearted.
Recommended, but only if you've got plenty of time to give it.
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