The Temple of No

Admittedly I played this because of another review that described it as worse than Annoyotron. (Which I liked and will leave a comment about.) So I should've known what to expect. But...

It's a jokey Twine-on-rails that parodies adventures and Twine. Nothing wrong with that! There are some jokes about how the author stopped putting effort into the other branches, which ehhh, and a shot at Depression Quest which should've been a red flag. It's also not as short as it might be (for instance you have to click "up" four times to climb stairs), and there's a hint of hidden branch that encourages you to restart the game, but I didn't find it. None of this is particularly fatal though.

The jokes didn't land for me, but that's subjective too.

And then I got to an ending that (Spoiler - click to show)offers you a piece of wisdom, and the wisdom was (paraphrasing):

(Spoiler - click to show)Have you ever played a Twine that was a good game, and not just good for a Twine game?

And then I recovered my IFDb password in order to leave a one-star review. If you don't have respect for the thing you're doing, don't release it to the public, and especially don't shove it in my face that you don't have respect for it. People are free to waste their time, but when they waste my time and laugh at me about it, they get a one-star review.

(And they could've wasted less of it.)

This short game is a sheer delight, beautifully illustrated and implemented with sound effects and music. Snarky and hysterical fun you'd expect from people involved with The Stanley Parable (but in Twine form.)

I even sang along when instructed, and I never indulge in audience participation.

(note: gratuitous swearing)

Forced and unimaginative "jokes", a linear story that managed to go nowhere, crude language consistently used as a crutch for poor story crafting. This game is as bad as it gets.