1.4 is only for the floppy version. The CD version probably includes those fixes.

feda wrote on 2025-08-01, 09:02:

1.4 is only for the floppy version. The CD version probably includes those fixes.

Which means 1.0a on CD would mean 1.4 is included? I am just wondering because the CD version from Kyrandia 1 shows 1.1 of the floppy version while here it is different.

mombarak wrote on 2025-08-01, 09:15:

feda wrote on 2025-08-01, 09:02:

1.4 is only for the floppy version. The CD version probably includes those fixes.

Which means 1.0a on CD would mean 1.4 is included?

I would hope so.
I played though the CD version a few years ago with no issues, so I wouldn't worry about this stuff.
The unpatched floppy version should be 1.3.

In any case , its a great game and easier than part 1 (let me guess - you could not resist that apple ...)

Aui wrote on 2025-08-01, 11:01:

In any case , its a great game and easier than part 1 (let me guess - you could not resist that apple ...)

No multiple things. Mixing potions, gems, and the fear to not take the right items to the next phase. Plus I ate the fish in the castle and did not know if this was a bad decision 😀

I am in the middle of the game now and I realize that this is one of the rare pixel adventures where the graphical style bothers me a bit. Book 1 looked great from start to finish but Book 2 (Hand of Fate) has a strange vibe sometimes. Not sure how to describe it but sometimes the graphical elements look like the do not fit together as perfect as they cool. Sometimes landscape looks a bit weirdly composed. Another thing is that some elements do not seem to fit into the universe for my taste. Example is the beginning. Its swampy and green and dirty from the look but then a purple cartoon dragon comes and looks to "sweet" for the rest.

The game design, especially the puzzles are much better than Book 1. What I noticed is that you can skip entire puzzles and miss elements. For example it seems you can leave Marco in the Sea prison (have not tried it) because you gain nothing from freeing him. Also you can chose to not help the 2 people chasing the foot. But if you do not do it, you will not become informed about where the hand is and where it came from. I wonder if they just had to cut parts from the game so these puzzles were kind of left but without a dependency so they would not block anything in the game.

Yes, while part one was ocasionally rather grim with abundant ways to die (although not as much as in Kings Quest) part two ocasionally added some goofy anachronistic elements (definitively not your typicall high fantasy). There is more to come of this ...

Finished the game now but I have to admit the task to mix all potions again at the end and the absolutely bad towers of hanoi puzzle destroyed a bit of the good opinion I had on this game. The hanoi puzzle wouldn't be so annoying if they would have used a simpler perspective. I had to use a hintbook because I was not even seeing/understanding what I was doing.

Now book 3. I have some reservations because this is the kind of graphics which I do not like at all. Floyd / The Feeble Files is supposed to be excellent game and a worthy successor but I really dislike this graphical style... so same problem.