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![]() by Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle) Related reviews: teenage, young adult, nostalgia, treasure hunt, NPCs, Vorple, graphics, epilogue, romance Guilded Youth is a short, aggressively compact coming-of-age story, with well-considered, strongly-executed, attractive presentation that contributes a great deal to the content without overwhelming it. You play Tony, an 80s teenager whose world is viewed through the lens of a fantasy-RPG BBS; recruiting various allies from his online world, he leads a series of quixotic real-world raids to plunder treasures from a derelict house. The interest lies not so much in trespass and theft, however, as it does in learning things about the NPCs (though this mostly feels like glances at the surface). Munroe is a capable writer. There's well-chosen music. On the surface, this feels like a polished product; indeed, it's really the product of four different specialists rather than one overworked generalist. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next Juhana, November 19, 2012 - Reply Guilded Youth is a great demo for Vorple, but to be fair it wasn't mean to be such. Vorple was just the only feasible online solution for presenting the kind of multimedia they wanted. I believe the hurriedness came from comp deadlines. Sam Kabo Ashwell, November 19, 2012 - Reply Aha, thanks for the correction; I had assumed that since they got a pre-release shot at Vorple that it was conceived of as a demo. |