Our James ,

In stately Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree — S. T. Coleridge. If you have ever longed to wander in Mr. Khan's pleasure-dome, then perhaps in the meantime this game will keep you in a smoky dream of endless buildings with rooms and terraces and balconies and fragments of sculpture and . . . Well, it goes on and on. I haven't finished it yet, and have no idea how many more absolutely gorgeous environments await to meddle with my bedazzled brain. Absolutely gorgeous graphics, the best of any game I have seen, and I am a graphics enthusiast. On my retina screen the detail and subtlety of these screens are . . . Well, "eye candy" is an overused term, but this is visual confection of the highest mark. The game? Fairly easy to get through (so far) but there are some inexplicable behavior from the little man you are guiding through this world. Nothing I couldn't get past with some brain work and patience (so far.) If you value split-second rapid-fire gameplay above all else, this probably isn't for you. (But check out the screenshots — they may change your mind.) But you don't automatically laugh at the idea as electronic games as art, dive in.