Sorry, this just isn’t doing it for me.
Now apparently this has the same author as Blind, which I pretty much liked? Or else two authors just have the same name for some reason.
This game seems to involve a meticulous recreation of the college the author went to. When I loaded up the Feelie map, and saw the size of it, I figured I was headed for a rough time here, but I had no idea. Individual hallways of the dorm are created, room by room, and I have to wander tediously through all of them…
And that’s as far as I got. The game starts out with the fire alarm going off, and you have to escape from your dorm room while on fire. But no other doors, including the front lobby or the clearly marked fire doors, seem to be opening for you to do so. You get an annoying prompt about the fire alarm every round, while you wander down confusing identical hallways.
And when the halls do have something unique to show for them, it’s not implemented:
north hallway (by room 106)
This is the north hallway of Mabee Hall. A drinking fountain is built
into the south wall, beside the lobby door. The door to room 106 is to
the north, and the hall continues to the east and west.
The fire alarm beeps loudly.
> drink
What do you want to drink?
> water
I don’t know the word “water”.
> x fountain
I don’t know the word “fountain”.
> x drinking fountain
I don’t know the word “drinking”.
Because why the hell would it be? I got 16 more identical halls to write about.
I gave up pretty fast, and went to the walkthrough on this one, just to figure out how the heck I was supposed to get out of the dorm.
It tells me to pick up my homework paper from the first room, and use it to “open” the bathroom door. The prompting for this is extremely unclear. You don’t get any indication that you can’t open the door because it’s too hot. In fact, the text you get looks like this:
> open bathroom door
It’s locked.
The fire alarm beeps loudly.
> open bathroom door with paper
The homework paper smolders a little, but you succeed in opening the
door before the heat becomes unbearable.
As you open the door, a wave of smoke pours over you, sending you
into a coughing fit and stinging your eyes and nose. Heat pours from
the bathroom, causing the air conditioning system to turn on.
The fire alarm beeps loudly.
I don’t actually know what the plot of this game will turn out to be, but I can see from the walkthrough that you actually win by waiting five times! Since I can’t skip to that part I’ll just call it off here and move on.
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