Reviews by MathBrush

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While I was alarmed by the 'vitesse alarmante' of the 'eau' entering my ship, I was able to escape towards 'la poupe'.

While the addition of extra French improved the game considerably, it had no effect on pre-existing French. I would have preferred seeing Capitaine Earthworm or some other variation thereof.

This game is written in its own multiple choice system, which allows you to check inventory at any time.

This game is almost entirely in German. I like German games, so it's not so bad, but in my version of windows, the umlauts display poorly, making the German not as easy to read.

Overall, the game is not as well developed as the system is.

This game has a homebrew parser that doesn't recognize most commands. In this short game, you have to work very hard to keep from urinating yourself.

It has several bugs and overall just doesn't make much sense, except for the anti-Barney rhetoric.

This game starts out with you answering several survey questions about music and its role in your life.

Then it has a major shift, and ends up employing some interesting narrative techniques and text styling tricks to make some unusual points.

I like the trick, but I found it hard to pick choices that reflected the persona I wanted to put off.

This game, which I believe is the author's first published game, has you disguising yourself as a repairman to enter an office and steal some data.

The author went through several cycles of writing and revising this work, improving the puzzles considerably over the original. The result is a smooth, short work.

In this game, you play as Jesus. You wander around a map, converting disciples, and occasionally fighting centurions.

Part of the game is purposely blasphemous, which I didn't like. But somehow the game is more sincere than Jarod's Journey or The Bible Retold.

I kept being killed by the centurion, and didn't finish.

This was a good twinelike game before Twine was popular.

You go to the bathroom in a bar, and everyone is gone when you come out.

This game is mostly pure branching, but has a clever puzzle or two, several images, and some sounds.

It was a bit hard to install and get running, but it's very interesting, especially if you're in to IF history.

This game, according to the author, was intended to come in exactly second to last place, which required (he said) surreal puzzles, misspellings, and a barely interactive NPC.

This may be tongue in cheek, but they have truly created a terrible game here. It is bad on many levels, including dumb implementation errors, undercluing, and misspellings. The author has truly succeeded at their goal.

Santoonie was a fake game company that would make really obnoxious games, occasionally for IFComp.

This is one such game. Like the others, it gives just enough of a level of implementation and thought that you think it might actually work and be fun, and then it slaps you with an unfinished game. It's like the Charlie Brown and Lucy football routine, over and over.

Has a sidekick with strong profanity.

In this game, you play as the president of the united states, and every room is a country of the world.

It was quite entertaining to see that I could travel to Mexico to the south and Canada to the north.

The writing and implementation was a bit spotty, though, and it was hard to guess what to do next.