Ratings and Reviews by Denk

30 second game so no spoilers. But it made me laugh :)
Nb: This is the 2012 "game", not the new tribute.
Nbb: It seems that only the archived version (older?) can be played online.

This is a well done PunyInform game by Garry Francis in his usual style I would say. Lots of puzzles, minimal story, though an interesting setting I would say, without revealing too much.

You are searching for a pirate's treasure in an old mansion and you will encounter a lot of pirate stuff and apparently some magical stuff too (or very advanced technology which I do not think).

I managed to solve the puzzles myself except for the riddle. It might be my English limitations - I never seem to get riddles in IF, be it Infocom or any other game. Otherwise, the puzzles were satisfying to solve and there were some surprises along the way.

A fun game in Garry's usual style. If you like solving other games by Garry, you will probably like this one too.

This review is for the first completable version, in contrast to the original competition version which could not be completed. Still, it was made during the Iron Chief competition where games are made in a very short time frame. So the version I played (1st of June acc. to the file name) could use a bit more pollish but the puzzles did not really suffer from this.

The player is given the job of cleaning up in several time zones where animals and persons have somehow been displaced in time and space. For that reason you have a special device. I will try not to give anymore spoilers here, except within spoiler tags.

The writing is short but still interesting. Objects you encounter has no use, so simply focus on the task. I was curious to see how the device was going to work in this completable version. This is the sort of game where things are usually a little more complicated than expected which is nice so it wasn't too straight forward. So figuring out exactly how the device works and what can be done with it is the big puzzle. However, it might be that the game can be solved in a bit more boring way, though the author seems to have been preventing that at least partly:

Overall, a very satisfying puzzle game!

This was well written and well done in many ways. I always feel wrong about rating such personal "games" as that would feel like treating it as pure entertainment. It was more educational but also sad to learn about how children may cope with losing a parent. Nor have I a lot to say right now, just want to support the author for doing stuff like this.