Secondtruth Blog Archives

  • IF Comp 2009: Resonance

    This is the last of the games!  Review begins with spoilers. I felt like I wasn’t going to like this game at first for two reasons: one, the title didn’t grab me (yeah another lame title that says nothing), and, two, when I initially start the game, this guy, who turns out to be my…

  • IF Comp 2009: Condemned

    Running this one on Parchment and, since I can’t save with this method (computer issues), I hope there are not a lot of swift deaths. I took notes while I was playing this so the review may seem more stream of consciousness than some of my others. It took me about an hour-thirty to play.…

  • If Comp 2009: The Duel that Spanned the Ages Part One

    I was late to the party on this one.  I admit it was a hundred-percent because the title kept putting me off. Despite the fact that each of these games is only supposed to take two hours apiece, and this one came to about 1:45 for me, “The Duel that Spanned the Ages” says to…

  • 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…

  • IF Comp 2009: Interface

    This was all right. When it said it was a “deliberately old school romp,” I was worried I’d get a lot of instant kills and have to save a lot, but it turned out I couldn’t really die or get stuck in this game. I saved a lot anyway, just in case something screwed me,…

  • Hiding Secrets in 3D Open World Games

    For anyone reading solely due to IF Reviews, I’m taking a short break from that in this post to go back to my usual type of topic, though, I do think that writing IF reviews has done wonders for my productivity in this blog. I’m still not quite out of things to talk about in…

  • GameX Conference

    I discussed the GameX Conference somewhat, but not very in depth. I did take some photos but I’m kind of bad at post-con reports some times! I guess sometimes it just feels like showing people my vacation slides… though I do enjoy reading other people’s. For a good summary, though, check out Jason Della Rocca’s…

  • IF Comp 2009: Star Hunter

    Spoiler space, not much, not assuming RSS feeds, etc I played with this for about 40 minutes and, after fruitlessly wandering around on the planet surface until the gizmo worked for some reason, I ended up at the andriod bazaar. The amount of crap in this area was pretty overwhelming, so I just gave up…

  • IF Comp 2009: Snowquest

    They say never set a movie in a cold place, because the audience doesn’t want to go there.  Is that true for a game, too?  …I don’t know, how well did Siberia do exactly, I didn’t keep track.  Anyway, let’s play Snowquest. So, spoilers abound here. ….I, uh, well, that was interesting.  I finished the…

  • If Comp 2009: Broken Legs

    I took a little holiday this weekend to visit the GameX Conference in Philadelpha, PA.  Great conference and met a ton of interesting people!  That of course is why I haven’t written anything in the blog on this topic in a little while. Instead of telling you about my vacation I’m going to go back…

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