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One-room joke game about the troll in Zork, February 4, 2016In this short game, you play the troll in Zork. You wait around for adventurers, and deal with them as they come.
The PC is well implemented, and the game was nominated for an XYZZY award for best individual pc.
The about text changes each time you read it, which is amusing.
Recommended as a small treat for Infocom fans.
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A cute, underdeveloped idea, July 5, 2013Play it if: a five-minute joke game playing off Zork cliches sounds like your cup of tea.
Don't play it if: you're hoping for a full-blooded critique of NPCs and minions in old-school IF.
This is a short game, short enough that it would probably take longer to read a review of it than to play it. A one-room, puzzle-less game, A Troll's-Eye View's basic function is to turn a little part of Zork on its head by showing it from the perspective of the embattled guardian troll encountered early in the game.
This is an excellent idea for a game in my opinion. Unfortunately, the execution is undercut by a rather limited implementation of the idea. The writing plays with the timeless Zorkian language, but not in a very complete way: a fair amount of the responses are stock Nelson-era statements which feel anachronistic.
It's one thing to pose a question about identity and agency in games. But you don't really need to make a game to accomplish that, and deciding to make use of IF as a medium for the critique of IF sort of demands more than this game has to offer. Only the barest mention is made of the troll's reasons for being there - not, in fact, much more than the game A Troll's-Eye View parodies. So while it does mirror Zork in certain respects, they aren't really the right ones to produce a critique that is particularly new or memorable.
A more complete attempt would have taken the perspective of a character with more agency, such as the main antagonists, as the gulf between their potential relationships with the protagonist and their actual non-existent relationships are much wider - and therefore a more fruitful source of study.
- Floating Info, April 5, 2013
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One location, a few commands, short descriptions and uninspiring responses to your limited actions leave you thinking, 'Why did I ever bother to look at this?"
-- Neil Shipman
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- Rotonoto (Albuquerque, New Mexico), June 28, 2011
- JohnW (Brno, Czech Republic), March 16, 2011
- Fredrik (Nässjö, Sweden), January 24, 2011
- Andrew Schultz (Chicago), December 1, 2010
- Muskie, August 11, 2010
- perching path (near Philadelphia, PA, US), June 25, 2010
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6 people found the following review helpful:
The Thief would have been better, June 12, 2010(Warning: This review might contain spoilers. Click to show the full review.)This is a remake of Zork I- kind of.
Well, instead of playing the adventurer in Zork I, you are playing the troll, from the troll room. Brandishing your bloody axe, you wait for adventurers to show up so you can kill them.
The game is very repetitive and boring- you can't leave the room, so you just wait for another guy to show up.
The writing is clever, for fans of Zork I and users of inform. It's cute when you examine yourself, or when the thief shows up, but other than that it's just a joke game.
I would be interested in seeing Zork: A Thief's-Eye View, or Zork II: A Wizard's-Eye View much more. When that comes out, let me know. Even playing as the bat would have been more interesting. As a joke "game", however, it is cute.
- Nathaniel Kirby (Pennsylvania), June 30, 2008
- Otto (France), June 10, 2008
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