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Admittedly I played this because of another review that described it as worse than Annoyotron. (Which I liked and will leave a comment about.) So I should've known what to expect. But...
It's a jokey Twine-on-rails that parodies adventures and Twine. Nothing wrong with that! There are some jokes about how the author stopped putting effort into the other branches, which ehhh, and a shot at Depression Quest which should've been a red flag. It's also not as short as it might be (for instance you have to click "up" four times to climb stairs), and there's a hint of hidden branch that encourages you to restart the game, but I didn't find it. None of this is particularly fatal though.
The jokes didn't land for me, but that's subjective too.
And then I got to an ending that (Spoiler - click to show)offers you a piece of wisdom, and the wisdom was (paraphrasing):
(Spoiler - click to show)Have you ever played a Twine that was a good game, and not just good for a Twine game?
And then I recovered my IFDb password in order to leave a one-star review. If you don't have respect for the thing you're doing, don't release it to the public, and especially don't shove it in my face that you don't have respect for it. People are free to waste their time, but when they waste my time and laugh at me about it, they get a one-star review.
(And they could've wasted less of it.)
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Well, despite myself, I decided to give it a look.
I don't generally make a habit of playing deliberately-bad games, but it's neat to see every so often how bad-faith stuff's cadence and polish can keep you pulled in even if you don't want to be.
A few jokes landed for me in isolation, but as a whole, yeah, as you said, it took more potshots than it needed. The jokes would've worked better if it hadn't been mean-spirited before.
Sort of like the person all "love me or hate me you have to pay attention to me." But of course you don't have to pay attention to them, just remind yourself you have better things to do and people to meet.
About Annoyotron: I have more respect for Annoyotron because it doesn't ask for as much mental energy, the padding is necessary for the joke but it's easy to rip through it, and the punchline genuinely surprised me and made me laugh. It's better for an interactive shaggy dog story to be filled with lots of "Somehwere in the middle of an enormous hallway" than with stuff like the dictionary definition of "spike"--unless the jokes land for you, which I guess they might.
(I do wish Annoyotron had been more deadpan about it, though. It didn't need to *tell* me I was annoyed at the end.)
