I came for the graphics, I stayed for the experience. So, a beautifully crafted game, both visually (obviously), but also more importantly from a gameplay/balance aspect. And, despite the speed and trips chaos, it's a remarkably relaxing experience. and anyway, with a game as elegant as Polybius, failing has never been so much fun! Which moves us to the fact that this game fells like it has been designed to get you to the zone as quickly as possible. Polybius, Histories Theodorus Büttner-Wobst after L. So you progress, and because the game's balance has educated you that with practice and patience, you will get further, you never feel like a wall has been shoved in front of you. Forge on, or rewind and give yourself a better start with more shields? Or a better score of you're leaderboard chasing. This is fantastically supported by the really simple and clever restart best system. And then, you realise you're past the pinch point. 114 Thucydides certainly seems to speak of it, not as entirely free, but as in some special manner subject to the supremacy of Sparta. Sometimes with a big lovely slap across the chops (flags, anyone?). Then, bit by bit, the challenge is ramped up. On top of laughing in awe at the rush if the gfx, this thing is playable for the getgo. In Polybius, Llamasoft chucks a simple concept on the table, wraps it up in some gorgeous visuals, and sprinkles some attractive gameplay over the top.
What's not to like? But there's something else that defines a Minter game. Lot's of old school feel with new school shininess that defines the Llamasoft lloveliness we've come to expect.
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Lot's of old school feel with new school shininess that defines Quite rightly, everyone is going full bore on the wow factor of the graphics.Your browser has.(Details here on the copyright law involved.)įor citation purposes, the Loeb edition pagination is indicated by local links in the sourcecode.Quite rightly, everyone is going full bore on the wow factor of the graphics.
Now in the public domain pursuant to the 1978 revision of the U. S. Copyright Code, since the copyright on the earlier volumes has lapsed and that on the later volumes was not renewed in the appropriate years, between 1950 and 1955. Loeb Classical Library, 6 volumes, Greek texts and facing English translation: Harvard University Press, 1922 thru 1927. Students who wish to read the Shuckburgh translation more conveniently, though, will find photostatic copies of the two printed volumes at Archive.Org: Readers have alerted me, however, that there are problems with that Web transcription for example: "it's amazingly user-unfriendly when I try to move through it to another chapter, it regularly delivers a blank page". Since I put this English text of Polybius online, a Greek text and a different English translation (Shuckburgh 1889) are now availableĪt Perseus. I've now started final proofreading: in the table of contents below, books the text of which I believe to be completely errorfree are shown on blue backgrounds. Several other readers, so that the text of all the books is quite good already. I ran a first proofreading pass immediately after entering each book, and also benefited from the sustained help of ( Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) As almost always, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend.
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