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Short version: I kind of wanted to root for this game, because it tells a good yarn and the setting is interesting, but it’s got too many technical problems. Long version: I actually liked the setting of this game and the way it’s set up.  It’s a standard noir detective story about an affair and…

No spoilers on this one, short review. It’s a Biblical game, and not the only one in the comp apparently! All I otherwise have to say about it is that I’m too desensitized for its intended inherent horror to have much of an emotional effect on me.  But it’s cleanly executed otherwise.

By the way, just a reminder that if you’re reading my blog on an RSS reader, the spoiler cuts do nothing. So be careful about that.

I actually played this yesterday, but I had to sleep on it because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it.  My initial impression was kind of lukewarm, but, when I started playing a little I realized that this game had plenty of elements that were really up my alley. In spite of that, however,…

I see what you’re doing here, Taco Fiction. By having the protagonist shake a lot with uncertainty, wibbling to himself every time he has to pull out his unloaded gun, you’re trying to tell me that he is not, in fact, a complete douchebag, just a desperate guy who is down on his luck and…

Spoilers, in the form of screenshots. … huh. Really? Oops, I died. So let’s try that again. Right then. Oh, I found a gun. So, um… Great! Sure.  That fat bastard!! Awesome. There must be some hidden depth to this, some clever bit that I am too dumb or drunk to understand.  I guess that…

So, I figured since I started on the bottom of the games list with the web-only games, I may as well continue that trend and work my way up from there.  This particular game then comes up next on the list. At the very top it says there were no beta testers for it, which…

The first game I played was Deirdra Kiai’s The Play.  My review of this one will be short and spoiler-free for a few reasons: It’s hard to top the depth of Emily Short’s review and the discussion that takes place there about the game thematically (though that will spoil) I already know I like the author and…

As I mentioned on Tap-Repeatedly, the Interactive Fiction competition has started up again. I’ll post some (probably short, given my other commitments, but who knows) impressions of the new games here, like I did two years ago when I judged.  Stay tuned!

Today on Tap I wrote too many words about City of Heroes Freedom.  Probably not as contemplative as many other things I’ve written, just a taste of a game that’s kept me occupied for a surprisingly long time. Edited just to add: I should probably mention I do spoil the end of an early in…