IF Comp 2009: Gator-On, Friend to Wetlands!

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 me the key with my corn chips.

Got frustrated. Checked the walkthrough.  The walkthrough is just a log of the game being completed, saving me a hundred percent of the trouble of playing it.  Perhaps eighty percent of the walkthrough is this description:

Wetlands
What commonly gets called a "swamp" is actually the most extraordinary ecosystem on the planet. Water and grass extend as far you can see, filled with an incredible variety of birds and fish and turtles and (of course!) alligators.

Great.  So, um:

>x grass
You can’t see any such thing.
>x water
You can’t see any such thing.
>x turtles
You can’t see any such thing.
>x birds
You can’t see any such thing.

Just sayin, if I’m gonna see this description in almost every other room you might try having some of those things actually exist.

I guess at some point some cracky giant robot stuff happens and I have to “unbite” something but I decided to pass.


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