Degeneracy

SPAG
The puzzles aren't especially exciting--there are only a few of them, and reading the manuals you find is essentially all you need to do--but there's lots of fun to be had in the writing. Much of it is mock-Elizabethan or thereabouts--lots of Surprising Capitalizations, for one thing, often put to amusing purposes. [...]

As mentioned, there's a trick of sorts in the game, on which I won't elaborate here. It's not a total success; some players, I know, thought it was a bug, which it most certainly isn't. There are indications that something's afoot well before the trick happens, though they depend to some extent, I think, on whether the player's moving around--fewer, if any, of the clues would be apparent to a player who's staying in one room working on a puzzle.

-- Duncan Stevens
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magnesium oxide
the viewpoint character is concerned with righteousness and sin and such. the baron’s sin is the titular degeneracy — he’s a vile man who does blood sacrifices, collects tomes on wicked arts, and has premarital sex. this view so thoroughly permeates the narration that the game’s incapable of actually criticizing it. i’m uncomfortable with this, but i can sort of respect committing this hard to characterization through narration.

...i don’t think it’s unfair to expect consideration when using such a loaded word in your title. perhaps worth examining, but i can’t recommend it on the merits.
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