♦ Livestream of the ZZT world "Voyage of Four" by WiL (2001) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/vo4/] ♦
♦ Stream Contents ♦
• (1:34) "Voyage of Four" by WiL (2001) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/vo4/]
Proceeding to another world to save them both!
Some very intense plot is thrust upon the player soon after starting this second file, when a roundtable discussion with the voyagers and their dark world (it's not a dark world) equivalents (they're not equivalents) reveals that there's far more going on than Tara's war against the Outlands.
The man in black is revealed to have been deceived, traveling to the voyagers' world believing that they're fixing an imbalance between the two worlds, but oops, they were played, and their bloodshed is the only thing that caused an imbalance. Ogilio, as he is called, tries to defend himself, but is unable to hold out against Cyros's reminder that he killed his wife and child.
So how to make amends? And how to prevent the gods from getting so pissed at how much fate has been ignored? The unmaking.
Ogilio is to be erased from existance, with the help of a time machine in order to prevent the events of the game from ever occurring. The voyagers and their new companions, awkwardly split up in search of everything for the ritual. A tedious, though technically impressive traveling engine has players slowly slowly slowly make their way to a ruined lab to acquire the time machine from a long dead scientist whose work drove them insane, solving a puzzle to access his vault using clues found in shattered memory orbs. Afterwards, the other group travels to find a special plant protected by living stones that need to be fought in the RPG engine from the first file.
The ritual is performed, but is it too late? And did you pick up that funny nail earlier?
Playing this one a second time, made it way easier to follow the story than the first, where so many things are presented to the player that had gone entirely unmentioned in the first half of the game, and while the walking goes on far too long (and you have to walk back after finding the items), the overall experience is still positive. This is a really fun story to unravel, and one that breaks a lot of expectations for a ZZT game from 2001. Shame there's a passage error that makes you have to go out of your way to not skip half the file.
♦ Play this world directly in your browser ♦
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/vo4/
♦ Originally streamed on January 31st, 2025 ♦
