Month: November 2009

Let me show you them.  Results Link. Looks about right to me.  I enjoyed Rover.  I find it interesting to look at the curves to see which games were the most polarizing. Yon Astounding Castle was very polarizing. Everyone hates the Hangover. I actually wanted to make the ceremony on MUD but I was, I…

The new Call of Duty is out so this is a perfect time for me to talk briefly about Chrono Trigger. This doesn’t come completely out of nowhere: really, rather than focus my own thoughts on the game for now I’m just linking some things I found recently that proved interesting. This is a recent…

This was my first time reviewing IF Comp games. I’m happy that anyone can do it and I’d like to thank the community for giving me a nice welcome and tips on IF MUD although I’d never participated before.  Typically I am more on the sidelines with this community. I’m couching my roundup statement less…

This is the last of the games!  Review begins with spoilers. I felt like I wasn’t going to like this game at first for two reasons: one, the title didn’t grab me (yeah another lame title that says nothing), and, two, when I initially start the game, this guy, who turns out to be my…

Running this one on Parchment and, since I can’t save with this method (computer issues), I hope there are not a lot of swift deaths. I took notes while I was playing this so the review may seem more stream of consciousness than some of my others. It took me about an hour-thirty to play.…

I was late to the party on this one.  I admit it was a hundred-percent because the title kept putting me off. Despite the fact that each of these games is only supposed to take two hours apiece, and this one came to about 1:45 for me, “The Duel that Spanned the Ages” says to…

Spoiler cut below. In short, no. It’s way too tedious.  I started playing it, wandered around fruitlessly, tried hints. It said, check out the beacon. I followed the beacon forever. Lost my key. Knew that, from wandering around, the crow was at the visitor’s center, so, stumbled back there, trying to coax it to give…

This was all right. When it said it was a “deliberately old school romp,” I was worried I’d get a lot of instant kills and have to save a lot, but it turned out I couldn’t really die or get stuck in this game. I saved a lot anyway, just in case something screwed me,…

I discussed the GameX Conference somewhat, but not very in depth. I did take some photos but I’m kind of bad at post-con reports some times! I guess sometimes it just feels like showing people my vacation slides… though I do enjoy reading other people’s. For a good summary, though, check out Jason Della Rocca’s…