Curiouser and Curiouser Gift is a game of a game, and the storyline gets weirder every time you read it. The developers send in all their best heroes, including barbarians, wizards and the like, but all of them fail. Oh, yes the dwarves. Well, for some reason the princess thinks she's Snow White, and you must therefore get the dwarves before you can rescue her. Uh, you've lost me there.
Gift is meant to be a satire of other computer games.
It's got a few weapons from Quake , a Tomb Raider outfit, even a lightsabre from Star Wars . But the real irony is that instead of being a clever parody and despite the convoluted plot, it's just as formulaic and old-fashioned as any of the games it professes to satirise. Gift is, in effect, a 3D platformer with an emphasis on puzzles. You guide Gift around the hazardous levels making death-defying leaps onto moving platforms that drift over a great abyss. You must avoid death rays by sneaking from cover to cover, and any enemy encounters usually result in instant death, although you do have multiple lives and they're usually quite plentiful in any case.