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Man. Maybe I was too hard on the last two games.  This one is a triumph of bad implementation. Some highlights: >x meAs good-looking as ever. Hm, always a good sign. You can also see a wooden doors here.>open wooden doorYou can’t see any such thing.>open wooden doorsYou open the wooden doors. Right then.  “A”…

Here’s another meh one I don’t have much to say about. Sure are glad you’re reading my reviews today, aren’t you? This one doesn’t have any major problems, but sort of feels like My First Interactive Fiction.  The puzzles are easy and it’s extremely short. It doesn’t have too exciting of a character voice or…

When I first booted up this game, I thought that it seemed to have an interesting premise.  The main character is a detective who was, apparently, sent on a crazy adventure to Camelot, then whisked back to his home world after saving the kingdom!  Now having to deal with boring, ordinary reality, how will he…

Is it my fault I couldn’t figure out what to do in this game? I narrowly completed it in two hours, but only after resorting to the walkthrough when I hit a literal wall. More after the jump. This is a game about an apocalyptic disaster. In the tradition of a disaster movie, you play the Guy…

I’ve never subscribed to the idea that blindness in and of itself is some kind of amazing superpower. Blindness is part of the power suite of Daredevil, the Man Without Fear, because he was hit by the toxic chemical that fell off the truck and gave him super hearing and touch and echolocation and whatnot.…

I had no technical problems with the game, and it’s easy and short. This game is stated to be part of a larger work, and though there’s a couple ways, it seems, to solve the situation presented by the game, all routes lead to the same ending, with a different score.  To say much more…

The title of this one may make it seem like a fantasy game, but the subtitle is “A Comedy of Error Messages.”  It’s about fantasy in the context of an MMORPG, and you play the game as an intelligence resting inside someone’s computer. Edit: Since I played this last, it apparently got a big update,…

Short version: I kind of wanted to root for this game, because it tells a good yarn and the setting is interesting, but it’s got too many technical problems. Long version: I actually liked the setting of this game and the way it’s set up.  It’s a standard noir detective story about an affair and…

No spoilers on this one, short review. It’s a Biblical game, and not the only one in the comp apparently! All I otherwise have to say about it is that I’m too desensitized for its intended inherent horror to have much of an emotional effect on me.  But it’s cleanly executed otherwise.

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