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Sparrow's Song

by J. D. Berry

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2 Off-Site Reviews

Inky's IF Stuff
My policy on fantasy games is specific but very firm: no beholders. Not even friendly ones that live in the basement. My policy on game design is also firm: no making the player do arbitrary actions, and especially do not make them do arbitrary actions multiple times to see a successful result. Also, the conversation system seems to be an experiment that doesn't really work out. Nevertheless, this has some cool bits in it and it's fairly short; it's not the best of the SmoochieComp games but it's not terrible either.
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Emily Short's Interactive Fiction Site
SmoochieComp Thoughts (Sparrow's Song)
This failed for me, I think, for reasons that amount almost to a philosophical difference: the love here is presented as a force that descends on you externally, compelling and irresistable, and the game keeps telling you that you feel it, but it conveys little of the reality of that...
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