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The Trip

Author:Cameron Wilkin
Genre:Surreal
Released:2000
Review:

You come to a small backwater town to meet your friends from high school who are as much losers as yourself. However, consciousness-expanding experiments (with drugs and hallucinogenic plants) trigger off a chain of events that finally make you change your whole life. I found some puzzles somewhat obscure, though the bulk of them can be bypassed - due to a bug. Since we're talking about puzzles and bugs - the game has several optional puzzles that are even more obscure, and is rather bug-ridden. The proper rating for this work probably would be ***, but I'm adding an extra star for the game's unique atmosphere reminiscent of works by Carlos Castaneda, which I'm very fond of.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Valentine Kopteltsev (30 Sep 2002)

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Awards:
33rd place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 2000
Downloads:
hint.txt (2.33 KB)
Hint file
trip.gam (167.71 KB)
TADS executable (version: Release 1.31)
walkthru.txt (968 bytes)
Walkthrough


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