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Night of the Hermit
Author: Roy Lazarovich Resolution: 320x200 at 16-bit color Downloaded: 43114 times (4.5 Mb) Genres: Comedy, Parody Length: Full length games
Website: http://www.geocities.com/roylazarovich/ Content advisory: Occasional, mild  None  Rare, mild Ratings: AGS Panel: (what is this?) Player rating: 60% Awards won: Best Sound Effects 2001 A spin-off of a very well-known pirate game, NoH is about a hermit who receives a message in a bottle, announcing his inheritance of his deceased grandpa's mansion. Upon arrival, however, he discovers the mansion has already been claimed and remodeled as "The Crippled Badger Motel." Now, it is Herman's quest to claim back his family's mansion and prove himself as the man he is. The download is split into two files, the game itself (as the download link) and an optional talkie version (as the mirror link), so click on both if you've got the bandwidth. in any case the talkie version does not replace the game download. Note that the games are compressed using ACE, so you'll need WinAce to extract them. Download Now - Download from Mirror 1 (if the download doesn't work, try Right Click, Save Target As)
User ratings for Night of the Hermit:
From 43 peoples votes so far: (vote here) Visual: 62% Immersion: 52% Puzzles & Pacing: 58% Overall Enjoyment: 60% You can see a detailed breakdown of the votes.
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User comments about Night of the Hermit:
Posted by foxxyfox555 on 2009-02-09 at 18:27 (IP logged): Hello, my name is Joel, from the french AGS forum. I want to translate your game in french. If you agree, send me an email to this address: kaldaya@hotmail.fr and I contact you. Thank you. :) Posted by gameguru on 2008-04-06 at 04:34 (IP logged): As I've said before and will say again. Excellent game. Posted by gameguru on 2008-04-06 at 04:32 (IP logged): Great great game, Love the humor. Challenging and funny, just what i like to see in games. And the fact that Herman finally gets the rep he deserves is good too! Posted by Rui Pires on 2007-09-01 at 11:44 (IP logged): This game has a severe problem. After a long time of figuring out puzzles I myself am not fond of, and trying to get to your goal, you get a very lousy ending which I won't spoil, because it doesn't have anything *to* spoil. If you could make Herman leave the hotel right at the beginning of the game, you'd feel the same way you feel when you finish the game. Better, in fact, because you wouldn't have wasted all that time. Night Of The Hermit's ending is for me SO BAD it eclipses any redeeming qualities the game might have. Posted by desimaui on 2005-02-21 at 13:06 (IP logged): I haven't been able to play this game for over4 months. I have windows XP and I get an error message that I haven't been able to solve yet. I was told that I had to rename the adwin.exe to ac2game.dat but I still can't run the game. This is the message I get: Error "Could not load ac2game.dat. You must create and save your game first in room editor before you can use this engine" What and where is room editior? Posted by Edwinxie on 2004-08-22 at 19:01 (IP logged): I think this game takes too long to lead to another room, otherwise, I might like it. Posted by Duquesne on 2004-08-11 at 09:14 (IP logged): I had the same problem as Gonchi.... with the error: There was a problem initializing graphics mode 320x200 (Problem: 'Unable to find a suitable graphics driver') when I try to start the game. This seems fixable through Setup, but this game doesn't seem to have setup... Posted by Duquesne on 2004-08-11 at 08:46 (IP logged): I'm having the same problem as Gonchi... With this error when I try to run it: There was a problem initializing graphics mode 320x200 (Problem: 'Unable to find a suitable graphics driver') plus there's no setup.... Posted by edwinxie on 2004-05-16 at 18:04 (IP logged): Can anybody tell me what file I should load to strat the game? Posted by sunshinegold on 2004-04-27 at 14:06 (IP logged): Really enjoyed the game. Glad I had a walkthru otherwise I would have missed a few spots. Lots of rooms which was great. Good design. Posted by Anonymous on 2004-02-24 at 23:58 (IP logged): Its pretty cool the voices are good but thy are recoreded poorly. Posted by zooomer1990 on 2004-02-20 at 02:22 (IP logged): The Game, story, puzzles & atmosphere are really interesting. Herman Toothrot is cool. (But isn't he somehow contradictory to the ending of Monkey Island 4 ?) The only irritating thing about this game is that the room transitions took a tremendously long time. But maybe others did not face this problem. Posted by InCreator on 2003-10-23 at 22:03 (IP logged): Well, to be honest, I didn't like it. And I am diehard adventuregamer. Just Herman is too dull for me. He was as dull in MI series too. Just don't think a quiet and intelligent pops could make a good main character. And puzzles were a mess. But gfx is very good and I'm sure this one has and is going to have more fans. Posted by deltamatrix on 2003-10-22 at 05:02 (IP logged): I think this could've been better. I'm quite put off because the puzzles are not obvious. I wish you'd added more reactions to the use of objects even if the move is wrong. unhandled_event is there for a reason. Posted by the_nackster on 2003-03-25 at 10:08 (IP logged): This game is the perfect example of a job well done. If I was stranded on an island with only one AGS game I would want this one. What disturbs me though is the fact that it takes so long for the screens to transist. Posted by Raiden on 2003-02-14 at 21:03 (IP logged): This is one of the most impressive and well done games greatly showing the example of what you are capable of doing with AGS, and how far your imagination can go. It is truely a well done and thought out project. In my opinion, if AGS was a buy, this game would be the perfect way to advertise. Not only that, but to old diehard adventure game fans and veterans that played original lucas arts adventure (i.e. monkey island, day of the tentacle, sam & max, ect...) will have something to smile out with this fun clever game. Posted by earwigz on 2003-02-09 at 07:00 (IP logged): Truly amazing. I loved this game and i cant say one bad thing about it, it is THE best fangame ever. Posted by Gonchi on 2003-01-23 at 01:03 (IP logged): I'm having problems getting the game to run. It says; There was a problem initializing graphics mode 320x200 (Problem: 'Unable to find a suitable graphics driver') I had a similar problem with 6DA but I fixed that by switching the resolution from 320x200 to 640x480 in the setup. This game doesn't seem to have setup... *shrug* Can anyone lend a hand? Posted by Da Crump on 2003-01-21 at 20:01 (IP logged): I aint played it but it sounds cool to me! Posted by Lazlow on 2003-01-13 at 09:53 (IP logged): Is this the best fan game ever made? Posted by Kathryn on 2003-01-13 at 01:15 (IP logged): I havn't played it yet, but I think you should have a cheat site for those who need help on it!! Posted by Kyriakos Hasapis (the butcher) on 2003-01-10 at 04:10 (IP logged): Roy proves he's too good to be working on fan games and should make an original game.

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