Beta test of posting in the new format? Well, also a game I played! By the way if you too want to experience the IF Comp games the place to download them is this page right here, or, you can play on-line. That’s what I did for this one, having been on my lunch break a couple days ago at the time. Some of these reviews are just ‘catchup’ because I wasn’t actually posting my impressions on these until now.
Spoiler space is as great a time as any to mention that I don’t have any particular rules about whether I’m playing games that are pretested or not. Apparently I’m actually the Beta Tester for this game?
This game has fairly clever text and I was pleased by it at first for that reason. It drops me in a puzzle room and gives me a puzzle to solve about ringing a bell. Not too hard to figure out and seemed to be implemented okay.
Cute response for ‘xyzzy’, which a lot of people tend to try.
After solving the hamster puzzle, I move in to what I guess is the free-roaming portion of the game. It sets me free to solve various puzzles in the environment if I feel like it, and want to, I guess. There’s not really a specific goal here but I can figure out that I probably want to get drinks and food.
This is the part where the game doesn’t seem as well-constructed all the sudden and I wonder if I’m experiencing bugs, or if the bugs are designed to be “charming” parts of the half-broken logic of the game world itself. The ‘Fun N Games Room’ has a lot of stuff that seems broken. Is it really broken or “charmingly” broken?
This is a relatively small room but it is very well-decorated with nicely carved wooden cabinets and tables.
>x cabinets
You can’t see any such thing.
Talking to Hellaine, or trying to, also nets really confusing responses. The game calls me “illegal object number.” Wait, is that a fake bug or a real bug?
I figured out how to get in to the theater and spawn the comedian. I didn’t figure out how to get to the walkthrough without consulting another review, since it’s not obvious.
I think I might like this game if it weren’t broken! But it is broken, I think. Or maybe not. I can’t tell so I’m giving up.
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