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Nice point n click game. I can see the joke right on introduction 
Even though it's a demo, I have yet to find the end of the demo. Still need to find supplies etc
While playing, I found two small bugs:
Innkeeper could return to wrong place at lobby when Eric is there after Eric left him at the bar. I don't know what caused this cause he returned fine before Eric did something ;)
2. Green Man could suddenly wake up and talks about the locked door even though he's sleeping, when Eric tried to open that door
Features:
*Classic SCUMM style interface
* Real-Time Sub-Games
* Fancy Cartoon interludes.
* Ludicrous slapstick routines.
* Pretentious back story, subtly offset by wacky humour...
* Walking vegetables.
* Soundtrack from 1980s cartoon classic "The Mysterious Cities Of Gold".
"It's hard not to believe in the Gods when they float over your head in a palace of blue crystal..."
In the far-off magical land of Raithe, Eric Moufflon is a simple Latherham farmhand with dreams. He's got a silly name, a big nose and he's scared of cows. But he gets more than he bargained for when he sets off on the road to great adventure.
Raithe is a complex, God fearing world, a world in which science and technology are shunned and those who support these new additions to Raithe's strictly magic-driven theology are looked on as fringe fanatics. Eric will have to contend with these conflicts. But if that sounds too heavy, he'll also have to contend with carnivourous vegetables, sadistic shopkeepers, buffet-obsessed sailors and spider-librarians.
Inbetween lying to his Adventurer's Club Contact about a) his physical prowess (he doesn't have any) and b) the size of his sword (he left it at home because he thought someone might steal it), Eric must wander around the countryside picking up lots of improbable but oddly useful items while learning some valuable lessons about faith, friendship, fun and flapjacks, and just WHY no one ever put a projectile weapon in an adventure game.
And finally, perhaps he will discover the secret reality behind his world...the secrets contained within the mysterious Apostolic Megalith, a gigantic floating prism of pure crystal which is said to house the Gods themselves...
Eric and the Apostolic Megalith is an early attempt by me to make a sort of a love letter to the games I loved playing when I was younger...Monkey Island, Simon the Sorceror, Final Fantasy....while I wouldn't say there are any "homages" in there (read rip-offs), hopefully the game itself will offer similar feelings to those games which inspired it. Puzzle-wise, I tried to capture the surreal-yet-makes-perfect-sense attitude of some of the best MI puzzles.
This is the DEMO of the never-finished game. It comprises what would have been the first part of the game, and is fully completable. It was made a few years ago, but I have had it running on my Windows 10 laptop, so modern users should be fine!
I'm throwing it out here as it makes more sense to have it available to play than rotting away on a hard drive, and maybe somebody will enjoy it! So just to re-iterate - this is not a full game, rather a self-contained, fully playable and completable section which functions as a demo.
If you have any problems running it, have a play with the settings and if you still can't get it going, let me know.
KNOWN ISSUE: After you come back to the title screen after clicking 'instructions', there's a delay for a few seconds before the mouse pointer appears. It's OK, the game hasn't crashed, it's just trying to animate an object that isn't there any more. Just wait a bit.
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