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If Comp 2011: It
So it’s kind of unfortunate that I played Six before playing It, since they have a really similar premise. Go and play hide and seek with friends. It, however, has less friends, less cute stuff, and is shorter. I don’t really think it’s a spoiler to say that the hiding place of the person you…
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IF Comp 2011: Sentencing Mr Liddell
The following review contains spoilers, violence, and bad language. I’m a big fan of Alice In Wonderland — the book, that is — as well as the sequel with which it is often conflated, Through the Looking Glass. Unfortunately, it always seems to lose something in its transitions to other forms of media, and Sentencing…
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IF Comp 2011: Six
Well, yesterday was kind of a bucket of fail, for me personally. What does the random game order generator pick for me today? … Oh. Well, this is quite nice, isn’t it? It starts up with some cute art of a girl in a fairy costume, and instructs me that it will utilize music and…
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IF Comp 2011: Vestiges
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”…
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IF Comp 2011: Last Day of Summer
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…
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If Comp 2011: Return To Camelot
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…
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IF Comp 2011: Andromeda Awakening
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…
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IF Comp 2011: Blind
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.…
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IF Comp 2011: How Suzy Got Her Powers
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…
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IF Comp 2011: The Elfen Maiden
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,…