• Completed & Reviewed by Neil Collins

Olli & Lissa 3: The Candlelight Adventure is a platform game by Codemasters. The aim of the game is to collect parts of a car which are scattered through the castle, so that our hero Olli can assemble it in time to take Lissa on a picnic. The graphics are monochrome but quite detailed in a style similar to that of the Magic Knight series by Mastertronic. Controlling Olli is quite awkward and moving down stairs is a bit different to normal. The castle is huge and very complicated to navigate, which is done through doors and elevators which have a strange way of connecting. It will take you a long time to know your way around and discover where the items are that you need to complete your quest. This makes the game very difficult and takes too long to play in order to beat it.

The car is now working!

The End.

HOW WAS IT COMPLETED?: I played it and saved my progress as I found the car parts. It took a long time to master the castle layout.

SO WHAT HAPPENS?: Once all parts of the car have been assembled our hero winks and the game is beaten. A final screen shows a letter from Lissa thanking Olli for the romantic picnic and for being a nice guy and a great mechanic.

COMMENTS:

• Neil: Lots of hard work put in for a very basic ending.
  

• Vinny: If I was very honest, I'd already seen this ending before it was submitted; I hacked it, but I wanted someone to play it through first to make sure I had the actual ending. I was hoping that my hacked version was wrong and that there was more to the ending :( What a poor, poor show.
  

• Brendan Phoenix: Complete lack of imagination. Codemasters have previous for this type of ending.

FINAL SAY: Such a shame. I was hoping for more at the end of this one.

G.E. RATING: 2 / 10

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