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GATOR-ON, Friend to Wetlands!, by Dave Horlick
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A silly power rangers spoof with giant opening maze, July 21, 2017*
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This game is split into two parts. The second part is pretty cool; you are a power-ranger sort of person who gets a robot and can form a Zord type of thing.

The first part, however, is incredibly dull, having you trudge through swamps requiring 15 or 20 movement commands in a single direction (like n.n.n.n.n.n.n....)

If the first half were shorter, this would be pretty fun.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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The Skull Embroidery, by Jeron Paraiso
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A homebrew RPG game with crafting system , July 21, 2017*
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This game has an interesting setup where you wake up, with amnesia, in a forest, wearing a tunic with a skull embroidered on it.

You have to fight your way past beetles to get upgrades to fight more beetles to leave a tutorial area which ends the game.

The problem with the combat system here is that small steps take a lot of effort. Typing takes much more effort than clicks; either typing needs to be reduced to superfast shortcuts, or each command typed needs to have significant effect. This game strugles to find that balance.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Infil-traitor, by Chris Charla
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
An old homebrew parser game about infiltrating a party, July 21, 2017*
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This is an old game that was released in IFComp purporting to be from 1981, complete with an old manual.

It was, rather, a new (for 2000) homebrew parser game about being a spy. I found the parser difficult to wrangle with and the story hard to piece together.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Delvyn, by William A. Tilli
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A strange game from the fake Santoonie Corp, July 16, 2017*
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This game has you play an autistic elf in the US called Delvyn, who eats pancakes and adventures into a spooky house.

I found this game fairly entertaining though buggy at first, but then I got stuck in the second pit, and reading on RGIF made me uncertain whether the game was even finishable, as Santoonie are notable trolls.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Bio, by David Linder
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Play as a lone janitor in a science facility, July 16, 2017*
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This TADS game has you play as a janitor in a lab where all the scientists are gone for the day. It's up to you to stop the terrorists.

The setting is pretty bland for a lab, and the room descriptions are minimal, but I didn't find any bugs.

There is an independent NPC and an animal that are fairly fun.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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Curse of Manorland, by James King
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A short, buggy game about riding a go kart to a fantasy land, July 14, 2017*
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This is an AGT game, a sort of parser used before TADS and Inform.

AGT games can be very good; however, this one has many issues, including grammar and spelling. Random text prints at the beginning of every verb, often instead of error messages.

I followed the walkthrough, but eventually found myself unable to complete it.

* This review was last edited on August 1, 2017
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BOFH, by Howard A. Sherman
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A game about being a complete jerk, July 12, 2017*
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This game is just terrible. In it, you are a misognyistic, sadistic, horrible man, whose goal is to make everyone's life worse.

The game jumps from genre to genre, and in my version, was unfinishable due to a bug near the end, but I wasn't interested in finishing it anyway.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Terrible Lizards, by Alan Mead and Ian Mead
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A game about dinosaurs that I suspect was purposely bad, July 12, 2017*
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This game placed near the bottom of the 2002 comp, and it's not hard to see why.

The game opens with an error message; typing 'walkthru' says 'insert walkthru here'. it says it was written for a 7 year old later, which could make sense, but it seems like the authors knew it wasn't anywhere near done, and gave up.

It has a huge, mazelike map with empty rooms all over. You are given goals, but the winning walkthru ignores all of those goals.

A truly bizarre game.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Not Much Time, by Tyson Ibele
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A sort of cute house game with magic and fun red herrings, July 12, 2017*
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This game has a good mix of red herrings and regular puzzle items.

You are wandering around a house, looking for your auntie. Magic intervenes.

This game has a fairly large map, but because it's organized so well, it feels compact.

A couple of the puzzle solutions surprised me, and I feel they could have been clued better.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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Concrete Paradise, by Tyson Ibele
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A dumb but funny game about prison, July 12, 2017*
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In this game, you commit a series of unwitting (or sometimes witting) crimes, ending in worse and worse prison-related situations.

The story-telling uses really effective techniques, but the writing and puzzles aren't up to the challenge. By techniques, I mean cuts between scenes, timed events, actions with delayed effects, etc.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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