Inept Reviews: Cauldron I & II ZX Spectrum

[nefasest]

C1 easy; C2 so hard i wondered whether it was meant as a joke just to tick players off

[ForViewingOnly]

I got given these games in a box of old Speccy tapes recently. The screenshots on the cassette inserts looked quite impressive but, by heck, these games look painful to play. Your comment "...lose the will to live" summed them up perfectly. Thanks for the review.

[aquaslayer1]

i uest to play that when i was younger i almost got the broom but there no way to find out if i can get it and i dont rember the witch being blue and there was no ghost if i rember well that must of been up dated oh is this game even on the new computers consoles these days if it dose let me know thanks?

[Texy88]

At 2:41 your witch clearly fell right through the platform!

[hardgayramen4ever]

a game similar to this?

ur probably thinking of wizball, I hated that game, just bounce everywhere

[pianinho]

I enjoyed both, specially flying on the bvoom, but they were not favourites... I'd rather fly on a jetpac!!!!! But Lunar Jetman was even better, a jewell!!

[mathowlett]

I quite enjoyed the first one, particularly the C64 version, but I thought Cauldron 2 was a load of toss. Couldn't get my barnet round it.

[Haller1977]

Seems that the 2 was much worse than 1. But any of them seem boring as hell.

[collieuk]

Apparently Cauldron 2 is really highly rated though. Loads of people give it a 8 or 9 out of 10. I have no idea how the hell they can put up with the frustrating little pumpkin for so long. I personally want to cut it's head open and make me some pumpkin pie out of it.

[Haller1977]

all my thoughts were "Die Pumpkin Die!!!"

[Camelsarse]

Again, loved this game when I was a kid, but after playing it on the emulator the nostalgic values mean nothing.

[keeprighton2007]

Nice review.

i remember Cauldron 1 running on the demo Speccys in WH Smith - the spectrum + had just come out, too. this game looks nice but gameplay was, as you say, frustrating!

For some reason Cauldron 1 reminds me of vastly superior Thanatos!