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\nSo, um. Yeah. This game is basically a practical joke on the player.<\/p>\n
It starts off as a highly linear, story-driven, not-very-interactive piece, the sort where the player’s actions don’t have a lot to do with the unfolding plot. I can’t say that I liked it much — seemingly-important things were left unimplemented while pointless furniture got lavished with attention, and it put in roadblocks, such as stopping things dead until you got your girlfriend a beer, for no apparent reason other than to have roadblocks, and didn’t seem to really get anything out of being interactive. But at least the prose was competently-written, so I was willing to go with it and see where the story went. It had just the beginnings of a mystery, and it’s hard to judge a mystery from its beginnings.<\/p>\n
Then, completely without warning:<\/p>\n
> enter train
\nYou get on the train but then you remember that you\u2019re pregzorz with teh baby, so u get off but teh baby drink all the blood. it wuz teh baby all along. his name was riverside!!!11one!1eleven (also you should try ragequitting)<\/p>\n*** PLEASE PRACTICE SAFE SEX. ***<\/p>\n
Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I can report that my immediate reaction was a kind of visceral, horrified shock. I assume that this is what the authors were aiming for, so good job guys! You achieved your objective, which is more than I can say for a lot of the entries this year, and I give you a couple of points for that. As in-comp trollery goes, it’s actually fairly innovative. And personally, I’d rather play an innovative, well-executed troll than a sincere but badly-executed game.<\/p>\n
Not that I want to encourage trolls or anything. To any potential trolls reading this: It has been done before. Go picket a Scientology building or something instead.<\/p>\n
Rating: 3<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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