Ratings and Reviews by verityvirtue

Based on a fairytale, it starts out with the promise of good writing. It doesn't last.

It took me a while to find out how to get somewhere- anywhere. The help menu helpfully suggests that one reads carefully. It may be just me, but there were barely any textual hints, making the solutions to the puzzles presented feel unfair.

There isn’t much of a plot, and even when a quest comes up, it isn’t clear what to do to achieve it. In the end, I only managed to complete the game by reading a transcript and blindly taking things.

Join the author, Joey Jones, on his romp through a list of 10 random games, which IFDB spits out if you’re really bored. It’s an extremely entertaining metafictional game- a game within a game, if you like- and the author’s footnotes add satiric remarks to the sometimes badly written games.

In contrast to some of the games featured, this game is, in fact, well written. No need to worry about illiterate parsers or clunky grammar! At least the author will point them out, say something to make you laugh and carry on. There’s also a helpful ‘hint’ feature to help you out if you’re stuck in one of the ‘games in the game’.