You're an unhappy teenager in an unpleasant Irish boarding school, remembering your happier younger days and putting up with the present as best you can. It's not very interactive, but it's an noninteractivity that serves the purposes of the story--the central character doesn't have the courage to speak honestly with others, so he hardly speaks at all, and the frustration the player feels mirrors the PC's frustrations. There are no puzzles, and the game essentially progresses whatever you do, but as a story and a characterization, it works extremely well.

Rating: ****

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (08 Feb 2001)

rameses.z5 (159.00 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 1, original competition entry)

rameses.zblorb (163.25 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 3)