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Pick up the phone booth and Cry

by Danny Miok

(based on 3 ratings)
2 reviews2 members have played this game. It's on 1 wishlist.

About the Story

This game is sort of a parody of a very short game that is already a parody. The game this is sorta based on is Pick Up the Phone Booth and Dye by Eric Schmidt(I think that's his name). You will most likely have to play Eric's game to fully understand mine. Not that you would really want to.

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Parodyception, December 14, 2020

The meta is strong with this one. It's a parody of Pick Up the Phone Booth and Dye, which is itself a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, and you'll want to play both of those games first in order to fully appreciate Pick up the phone booth and Cry.

Compared to the rest of the PUTPBAD corpus, this game has two salient features. First, it gleefully embraces and even intensifies the cruel, mocking sense of humor that the original established. Second, it's riddled with typos and grammatical errors.

Whereas the original PUTPBAD explored the antagonistic relationship between the protagonist and the phone booth, this game follows in the footsteps of Dye by rather focusing on the internal struggle of the protagonist. It's a case of player vs. self, as you seek to win the game in spite of your own limitations. But whereas in Dye this struggle is eminently practical in nature - you (Spoiler - click to show)can only lift one thing at a time and need to find a way around this - in Cry what we get is a protagonist who struggles against their own mental and emotional weaknesses as they try in desperation to solve a seemingly insurmountable puzzle. The protagonist is portrayed as pitiful and pathetic... for laughs.

Perhaps, in a game with better writing, I could have found the humor in this. But when combined with all the typos and poor grammar, it just comes off as crude.

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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Parody of a parody of a joke game, February 6, 2022
by Cody Gaisser (Florence, Alabama, United States of America, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Known Universe, ???)

Pick Up The Phone Booth And Cry is a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Dye, which itself is a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die (a very simplistic joke game). Pretty much all the humor has been bled out by this point.

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