Epic Hero #3, Venus Must Live (1982)

I’ve now played Epic Hero #1 and Epic Hero #2 of the series by Marc Leduc. I’ve given the history already at those entries, but as a brief reminder: he was a Canadian who moved to England (and married and had children there); he was a fan of both the Video Genie and the much rarer Colour Genie and produced a series of three games (Epic Hero) followed by a series of six (Colour Quest), where two of the Colour Quest games were written by a different author and the sixth Colour Quest game is mostly a duplicate of Epic Hero #1. I wanted to get the Epic Hero games off my list as they’re lingering 1982 games; I had them as 1983, based on CASA’s entries, but I found an ad that put them as coming out right at the end of 1982. Computing Today, January 1983, with a one-month newsstand delay. I enjoyed Epic Hero #2 as it was based on experimentation in a fantasy universe but had enough logic to how things worked I didn’t feel like the puzzles were just stumbling at random. Will Game #3 hold up?…