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From 1980 through 1986, French author/illustrator Philippe Druillet published three graphic novels based on Flaubert's wacky Salammbo. Druillet moved on from comix and became involved in multimedia some years ago; he provided the illustrations for the Arxel Tribe games Ring and Ring II. It is this latter little tidbit, in combination with the fact that work on the game Salammbo was begun by wacky Cryo before that company's unfortunate demise, that gave rise to my grave misgivings about this game. However, these turned out to be unfounded. Salammbo the game deviates considerably from Flaubert's original work but at heart it is still the story of the love between Salammbo and Matho, the rivalry between Matho and fellow warrior-chief Narr'Havas for Salammbo's attention, and how a once-great city-state was sacrificed so that Matho and Salammbo might finally be together.
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