Frost 2: Ice (incomplete)

The dumbwaiter connects with the room Martina's being held in this time, and she sleeps right through Jubal breaking through the wall with his trusty mop.

The second rescue mission goes a lot better. Xx and Xy just wanted to go to bed so no need for magical forcefields this time.

Alfred and Jubal heft up Martina and make their way out of the room. The whole scene is properly animated with Alfred running up to the door to check on it, then helping carry Martina when the time comes.

Iconic writing. (I do like that Nadir indicates XY is speaking despite not being in the shot at first.) He also cries for a bit, flickering between the two smiley face characters available.

It's just about time for Checkov's Ulgarant to show up, and more Tulili as well. Our heroes are on the run now.

We cut to the streets at sunrise, where Alfred and Jubal are still lugging Martina with XX and XY coming up behind them, and then up ahead two mysterious persons in the middle of the road?

But alas, the most important character here is the dark green char 1 in the top right corner.

This is almost the end. Nadir has arrived to give some closure and critique of his choice of names. (Ulgarant is better than Facebreaker and Tulili is better than Piskin, fight me Nadir.)

Final Fantasy Disc One by Chase Bramlage does indeed get a little difficult to look at, but I'm not seeing anything dreadful about the roads.

And lastly, the line to continue is a reference to a long since deleted review on Frost 1; Power. Fortunately the review is preserved in a future board in this game, so uh, that's something to look forward to.

Nadir has to show up because the game hits a point in the story where that story was never coded, but there's still one final cutscene after the whole Ulgarant chase.

Visually it's a very nice board yet again, and very reminiscent of one of Nadir's boards from Evil Sorcerer's Party.

Not surprisingly, the characters move about a little in this cutscene. Also while most of the home's rooms are purposely obscured, Nadir did make sure to provide a ZZT bathroom.

Alfred is revealed to actually be from a middle class upbringing, and is not in fact some street punk like Jubal. Martina apparently slept through all the fighting and chasing, but is ready to explain what's going on, finally, we'll learn something. Oh wait no we won't because this is the last dialog in the entire series.

And Nadir's own commentary explains why Jubal's one eye looks different from the other. I can't imagine the magic eye thing was anything other than a clever joke because what an odd item to take off a shelf otherwise.

It's also now been so long since this game's been worked on that Nadir himself can't even remember things clearly.

Not everyone was a fan of Frost 1's emphasis on story over action. I do not remember this person at all.

Saving screenshots of bad ZZT reviews was a popular pastime with z2's staff.

Some otherwise unused art. This is Ice's equivalent to the unused art board in Power of Penny's best friend pre-exile, Melissa.

Nadir was probably smart for never saying something like "The Frost Quadrilogy" or something to indicate just how dang long it was going to be. After two games we've met Silver and Cedric, with Ocean here and maybe maybe maybe Set is supposed to be Seven meaning at best we know of just over half of the important characters, and that's not even considering what Penny/Henna/Jubal/Alfred/Martina/Mist are supposed to have to do with anything.

Next up is this world map for Ilititoa, and a bunch of literal worldbuilding. We learn the continents, orbits, and oceans. I can't believe we aren't told how long a day is.

It's also one of those maps that looks more like a tweaked Earth, or well part of it. Esia as Asia; Iloati formed from a lower Pacific ocean so that Japan, Indonesia, and the surrounding nations aren't islands; Jyndelm being the United States with most of Canada underwater. It's a bit smaller though what with Europe being underwater and I guess Sagania is both Africa and South America?

Also Kompres Ocean is almost certainly a reference to Kompressor, who was a big hit with the ZZT community.

This board is really strange. For one thing the Nadir object isn't accessible, forcing me to crack open the editor later.

It turns out to be a rather unusual choice for a title screen for the second file. There is (and was no) second file ever actually made, but as the file clocks in at over 320 kB, there was definitely a need for one. For reference, the largest ZZT file is still Fred! Episode 2: Ffreddiannia, coming in at 389.5 kB and frequently crashing ZZT on loading or quitting the file. The rule of thumb is to swap once you approach 300kB.

The Offspring thing is just an unusual choice to make the title screen of a game focus on, but whatever!