Reviews by Ogre

Another one that's maybe not really an IF. Okay, it's hardly even a choose your story. In fact, it's just fighting. But it IS fighting crabs!

You pick your battler, then decide how you want to attack the opponent. Some moves and elements are more effective than others and learning the correct combinations is your path to victory! There's no story, no getting involved with characters, but there's fighting crabs, so that kind of makes up for the lack of story if you ask me.

So go fight!

This is a great story, and you'll see that if you head on over and read it. With over 60,000 words, there are a lot of ways to navigate your way through this one. It's a true CYOA (as opposed to classic IF), but there are good, clear options for you to follow through the story. The story has a good deal of depth, so you won't be disappointed if you're looking for a story that you can get into.

Yes, indeed, this is a difficult adventure. It will likely take you many tries to get through this one. It also quite well written. There are good details throughout the story, and I felt like I was in the story when I was reading it. There is a lot going on with this story and it can be entertaining, but yes, the subject is terrorists in the Wal-Mart, so if that's a problem for you, you probably shouldn't be reading this one.

This one is another that's not really an IF, but it's still fun. This one has you making choices of possible answers to riddles. Sure, you can click your way through this one to find the end eventually, but it is a lot more fun trying to figure out the correct answers to the riddles. It's also framed in an escape from the tower format, which makes it even more interesting. It won't take you forever, but if you want to read a few riddles and play around, head on over and have a read!

This is a really fun story, despite it being a horror. The author writes quite well and also lets you know when you're making a critical choice as opposed to one that's not going to have as much as an effect. While some people won't like that breaking of immersion, I find in this case it is quite nice and informative. And there are enough options and choices that you can really feel like you're playing a different story each time, which makes the replayability score high.

Ok, there's not a lot here. This probably isn't really interactive fiction, though I don't want to start an argument over what REALLY qualifies as OG interactive fiction. Instead, this is just a quiz, but it is still interesting.

Basically, this quiz asks you 12 questions. What makes it interesting is that each question has a large variety of answers, not just two or three to pick from. After you answer all the questions, you get a quite comprehensive interpretation of your answers. So it only takes a few minutes, so head on over, answer some questions, and get your fortune read!

Yes, this is a choose your own story... but it's also a dungeon explorer. The options you choose from are just related to defeating the monsters and making process towards the bigger prizes and even bigger monsters. If you're looking for an involved story with character development, this isn't the story for you (unless your mind wanders a lot while killing things). But if you want to hack and slash your way through hundreds of monsters on your way to glory, this is where you want to be!

Sure, this isn't a massive, 100,000-word story that will suck you in and keep you interested for days. But it is a little world where you can spend some time, solve a puzzle or two, and be entertained (I hope). Try not to get too sidetracked at the start, the story will let you lose sight of the goal completely if you're not focused at all. The puzzles aren't too hard, but one takes some good reading comprehension to get through. I do hope you enjoy this one, I had fun writing it.

I know some people who play and read these types of game today aren't a fan of this type of game. But really, this one did start it all. I played, learned, and liked the original two-word parser.

Really, even if you've read and played a lot of other types of IF, you really should find a way to play this one. Sure, it's a simple parser, but the adventure is fantastic. No, there's no huge storyline. But finding your way around and learning your way through this massive cave just can't be beat. Try it. Really.

Sure, I'm the author. But I really liked this one. It is still fun for me to go back and read, even years later. There's not a ton of different endings, but you can play it more than once to try and find the different endings. And while you're there, you can just try and imagine the scenes playing out in the TV studio and laugh away!