Reviews

1985 The Edge (UK)
by Bo Jangeborg, Jack Wilkes, Niclas Osterlin and Mark Alexander

Truth be told that the plot is great and that surely makes it a great game. It has a universe of it's own and one can immerse in it quite easily. Graphically, it's slighyly different from other similar games, specially Ultimate games, which seem like a variation on themselves. Fairlight as it's own style, not so polished as are the Ultimate games, but still quite good. I'm not a fan of Isometric games, but this was one of my favourites, together with The Great Escape. Both classics of the Spectrum era.

Incredible atmosphere for this amazing game that expanded the boundaries of the Spectrum back in the day.

Should I give 5/5 to it? I don't know.
As we all know, it's a great and proper 3D isometric arcade/adventure, with the adventure element far more developed than in Knight Lore.

One of the classic games for the Spectrum. A marvellous adventure coded in 1985 by Bo Jangeborg for The Edge, the first adventure ('A Prelude: The Light Revealed') of a trilogy but only a sequel was released.

The action takes place in Castle Avars, in the land of Fairlight, the once-prosperous land led by mighty and worthy leaders that now is a dying land, where the dark reigns. Isvar is our hero that must find the Book of Light in the castle so that the land of Faiflight be free again.

The game is one of the best isometric adventures, on a par with games like Knight Lore, Batman, Head Over Heels or Alien 8. The castle consists of rooms and caverns that are designed with high detail, it's got one of the best maps for the Spectrum and the main character can carry a number of objects depending of their weight: books, potions, plants, barrels, ... he even can stack objects into piles.

You can come across guards and trolls everywhere. Depending of the number of enemies or objects, sometines the movement can be slow and even though there's no sound it's got an unforgettable intro music.

To put it in a nutshell, an essential adventure for the ZX Spectrum.

Let's continue "exploring the exploration side" of these Covid-19 times and its isolation consequences

With Fairlight you have not only the Best map ever, also the smartest implementation of inertia and gravity. Fairlight takes the Open World philosophy to New heights. And the SandBox concept, taken to extremes never seen before

Basically you can do whatever you want compared to other programs

Do you need more hints about the supremacy of this swedish creation? Play it, You don't even need to know any objective

Always was an enjoyable game to play and even now it still holds up well. Stick to playing the 48K version though because the 128K tune is dire.

Indeed, there is much more than one can write about it

Here's one of the few wonders capable of comparing itself to immortals, just like Head over Heels | Knight Lore | SkoolDaze saga....
Besides, its overwhelming depth manages to immerse you in its universe

Fairlight, What a great achievement for the 8 bits history
You wont see more than 4 pieces of software better. But Not in the ZX, in fact I'm speaking about every other machine