Crapshoot: Conquests of the Longbow, the Robin Hood game that didn't suck

from 2010 to 2014 richard cobbett wrote crapshoot, a column approximately rolling the dice to bring random difficult to understand video games again into the mild. this week, robin hood can be in a fix. robin hood, robin hood, spies a weetabix. does he retreat? again to sherwood? no. because it's just a ****ing cereal.

these days i need to speak a piece about one in every of my favourite game endings of all time. of course, to get there and see why it's so incredible, we need to take a little little bit of a adventure. the vicinity? sherwood woodland. the time? how about proper now, or in a few hours if you're analyzing this in americaland? and the hero of the search? a man in lincoln inexperienced tights by means of the call of robin hood. you could have heard of him.

conquests of the longbow is one in all sierra's lesser-sung adventures—maximum of which also hit the shelves without the word "quest" or "larry" anywhere of their titles. it was the sequel to an arthurian sport referred to as conquests of camelot, with both video games written with the aid of clothier christy marx (who has lots of credit, gaming and otherwise, but whose most famous advent might be jem—the 80s pop cartoon whose subject matter song is even now nearly without a doubt strolling via your cranium. um. sorry approximately that.)

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both video games took a comparable method to their myths: meticulous element, and a more paganistic model of the tales than usually told. in camelot as an example, arthur has to start his quest for the holy grail with the aid of paying tribute to each christ and mithras, an ancient thriller cult.

the beauty of each legends is that they're with no end in sight malleable. neither have a 'actual' model, and changed appreciably over the years. in the arthurian memories, specific retellings like mallory fixed our view of the tale, however elements like guinevere's affair with lancelot, or maybe lancelot's lifestyles—in earlier versions, gawain become firmly the person—have been late additions to the tale. in my opinion, i constantly felt a little sorry for morganna le fay, who began off as an ally but in the end morphed into one of the villains, likely due to the fact her call is a lot, lots cooler than that of her sister morgeuse, which sounds like some thing a hungry guy could shout at a duck-themed dinner party.

the legends are still being written nowadays. in the case of robin hood as an instance, it is now predicted that the merry men—though that term is more and more sidelined for apparent reasons—will contain a saracen member. the maximum well-known of them is morgan freeman's azeem from robin hood: prince of thieves, with the bbc going for a twofer by making it a woman known as djaq. this fashion handiest goes returned to the 1980s although, and in particular a character referred to as nasir in robin of sherwood.

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like all the best myths, the origins of robin hood are in large part lost in time. the version of the tale we all understand now has little in not unusual with in advance versions, wherein he's been the entirety from a yeoman to a nickname, to an early advertising and marketing marketing campaign. a few of the maximum obvious modifications is that firstly he did not put on green, but purple. another is that in those early days, maid marian turned into nowhere to be seen—she entered the tale through a facet front, first as any other man or woman played at some point of gala's, after which as a way of creating the difficult outlaw extra of a gentleman... and, it's been suggested, to perhaps draw interest far from communicate of the merry guys being just a little too merry. ifyouknowwhatimean.