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Cloak of Cleansing

by Zac Marino

2024
ifSpace

1 review2 members have played this game.

About the Story

This is my Interactive Fiction submission for the "Really Bad IF" game jam. It's short, and you can't lose (spoiler alert)... I hear spoilers make games worse, so I'm already doing pretty well.

CONTENT WARNING: Some language (Mild Discretion)

Awards

Entrant - REALLY BAD IF

Ratings and Reviews

Cloak of Darkness Spoof, June 5, 2024
Related reviews: reallybadifjam

Cloak of Cleansing is a short parser, as a spoof of the Cloak of Darkness. Unlike the original, the world has been expanded and the goal as changed. You do not start with a cloak on your shoulders, but rather, must find your own. The message in the bar is still there, but is now too obscene to be displayed on screen or interact with. Instead, you must interact with a new NPC who will reward you for your unique “sense of style” (I think there’s a HHGG reference there?). Most of the game is pretty railroady after that puzzle is completed, and a sudden shift in tone/genre.

The parser is fairly bare with only a limited amount of command defined (or giving a response - even X ME doesn’t do much). I’m pretty sure I ran into a bug in the bar as well, where I ended up being stuck, unable to go back to the foyer (going against the “you can’t lose” admission in the blurb).

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