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  • If Comp 2009: The Grand Quest

    Okay, I thought to myself, I’ll do one more today. Technically I have two hours, but with this one I stopped after about one. It’s a whole lot of puzzles without too much context, which is not really my thing.  I guess it would be wrong to say no context, since it’s established my protagonist…

  • IF Comp 2009: Trap Cave, and The Hangover, mostly The Hangover

    A brief note on Trap Cave: I intend to skip it.  I don’t want to install an experimental exe to my computer, and the scuttlebutt is that it has a lot of untranslated German, a language I don’t speak.  So, Did Not Vote, moving on. I wasn’t sure about downloading The Hangover either, since I…

  • If Comp 2009: The Believable Adventures of an Invisible Man

    I didn’t get very far in to this one.  It has some typos and some downright confusing bits. I was frustrated by the lack of simple QOL fixes: the game needed automatic door opening in particular. More spoilery things: By not very far, I mean, I managed to make it in to my lab, having…

  • IF Comp 2009: Yon Astounding Castle of Some Sort

    It kinda makes my head hurt. It’s all ye and yon and stuff. Hm, I wonder… >get ye flask Taketh what? Dammit!  Oh well.  Actual probable spoilers below. I didn’t get all the way through this one in the time alloted, at least not to get what I assume the best ending would be.  I…

  • IF Comp 2009: Spelunker’s Quest

    Played this. Nothing to spoil really. It was oldschool and there wasn’t too much interesting in it but the writing was competent enough… This is my first year judging so I admit to being a mite confused at several posts that seem to indicate judging is over. Either they’re just extremely fast judges, or the…

  • IF Comp 2009: zork, buried chaos

    I am not a nice person in the below review! Sorry.  Sometimes I get to snark too. Shew.  I was kind of worried, because, so far, every game I have played in the comp that I haven’t liked much, I figured, I personally didn’t like it, but it was probably just not for me, and…

  • IF Comp 2009: The Ascot

    I had time for one more today. This was a good one to play before bed and after doing heavy puzzles because it turns out there was not much thinking in it at all.  There wasn’t much to it at all either, really only about 30 minutes of play here, and that’s from playing it…

  • IF Comp 2009: Grounded in Space

    Grounded…. innnn… spaaaacce… I’m not doing really long spoiler tags because I don’t think people are actually RSSing this fairly new setup for my blog. If it is really true that you are and spoilers are showing up on a feed you can comment or something but I anticipate I will not encounter this problem.…

  • IF Comp 2009: Earl Gry

    Comp entry pages say “Earl Grey” but it distinctly says “Earl Gry” at the top of my interpreter. I don’t know if I’m just not good at puzzles, or if the puzzles in this game are silly and arbitrary. I flailed around for a long time trying to solve it myself. I never would’ve solved…

  • IF Comp 2009: The Duel in the Snow

    Duel in the Snow. I hadn’t read any other reviews or spoilers and other than the blurb had no idea what to expect. Possibly some kind of duel, in snow! So, um, there’s that. Spoiler cut!I feel bad, because this game is very earnest and well-programmed and nothing is obviously broken and I probably should…

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