Reviews by yena
punyjam
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Facing your fears, December 10, 2021Face your fears plays around with the theme of PunyJam 2 in a fun way. There is lots of creativity in the phobias you encounter. There are not many rooms, but they are well implemented and described. What is a bit puzzling is that some interaction runs counter to what you normally would expect in an IF game. There are situations where the same command yields different results the second or third time without being hinted at in the game text, and conversations with NPCs are handled more like a conversation tree with keywords. This confused me, and made the game harder to solve than a more traditional approach would have done. This is not bad, just something to keep in mind if you want to play the game.
Small but fun!, November 28, 2021This small game for PunyJam 2 is well written and fun, with a good variation in puzzles. Good descriptions and all I tried had reasonable responses. All in all I enjoyed, but there are two small things that I think could be improved if the author wants to release another version based on feedback. The game lacks scoring and other feedback to judge if you (as the player) is making progress, so I was surprised how quickly it ended. And second, I think that one of the problems is too tightly paced. You must do things in an exact sequence with no time for looking around or examining things. There is no way that someone can finish the game without save/restore or multiple undo. It would be better to be more forgiving there.
The horror!, November 28, 2021A tiny game, but so much happening. The game is fun and unusual, and I had to look into this Morris madness which was a nice tangent :) The phobia is of course a bit silly but fits the theme and the setting well. And big props to providing two solutions that both are well implemented and logical.
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