Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Amiga Format | 92% |
| The One | 90% |
| Mega Zone | 92% |
| Amiga Power | 88% |
Upon its release, Lure of the Temptress received general acclaim from critics, who praised the game's innovative controls and graphics, and compared it to Sierra and LucasFilm games. Amiga Power ranked it at #66 on their list of Amiga Power All-Time Top 100. In 2011, Wirtualna Polska ranked it as the 30th best Amiga game, saying it was "indeed a revolution" in the genre. It was also a commercial success, reaching number one in the British Gallup charts at the beginning of July 1992 and remaining in the Top 20 for most of the rest of the year.
Amiga Format stated that this "a fine adventure game well worth investigating" can compete with Sierra and LucasFilm games, "in any event, Temptress surpasses almost anything Sierra have offered, by being larger, funnier, and a whole lot better drawn an innovative system knocks spots of the Sierra-standards and shows LucasFilm a thing or two" and also praised its humour, saying that there's "a good dose of tongue-in-cheek humour and fairy-tale nonsense." The One praised the game's controls, saying that "the game's impressive user-friendliness is undoubtably one of its strong points," adding that "Lure of the Temptress is every bit as professional and polished as anything the Americans and French have been able to offer us recently" but "Lure is, if anything, a little too serious and sombre" and that "LucasFilm's games boast the more interesting characters and interaction sequences." Amiga Power praised its graphics, saying they are "very pretty drawn, with the dark, moody look you'd expect from a town being oppressed by an evil Temptress," calling it "one of the best graphic adventures ever" that's "up there with Monkey Island 1 and Beneath a Steel Sky," and adding that the "only drawback is that it's shorter than your average adventure." Mega Zone praised the game, stating that it is a "Sierra/Lucasfilmish with really, really good playability. We're talking 32 colours graphics which look really nice, with playability which is really smooth, and simply pure gaming enjoyment here," adding that "the manual is very well written, the sound the graphics are all there, disc access is very good, and looking at the way the whole game is put together right down to the intro it's one of the most amazing Amiga Adventures every written! An Adventure Zone classic!"
Adventure Classic Gaming's was less positive in its retrospective review, stating "what makes Lure of the Temptress fun—but also annoying—is the game's unique gameplay engine" and that its graphics "unfortunately do not hold up well over the passage of time," but that many of the backgrounds are "quite beautiful" and summarizing by stating, "While far from being a dull game, Lure of the Temptress is also full of clichés and stagnant periods of gameplay which ultimately undermine the game's overall enjoyment."
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