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![]() by Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle) In order for parody to work, it has to be salient criticism: it needs to articulate and illuminate a problem with its subject. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next Victor Gijsbers, March 27, 2014 - Reply Are you sure the game is meant as a parody of Guitar Hero? It so obviously fails at being so that I'm inclined to categorise it differently. It's more a moment to revel in pure absurdity, as with a game I once played called "Play Quake in a forum thread!" (You just wrote down how you killed or was killed by your opponents.) Not deep, not spectacular, but good for a smile. Sam Kabo Ashwell, March 27, 2014 - Reply Your reading might be plausible. My take, though, is that among People Who Like To Deride As Worthless All Game Genres That They Do Not Personally Enjoy, obviously dead-on-arrival criticisms are common currency. I dunno. I'd expect a revel-in-pure-absurdity game to aim to be more fun, along some axis or another. Victor Gijsbers, March 28, 2014 - Reply I'm tempted to see this game almost as a piece of concept art. It's basically "Hey, let's play guitar hero ... as a turn-based text adventure!" *cue a smile at the absurdity of the thought* except that the idea is easier to convey by actually taking the 5 minutes needed to make the game, so the maker did that. Maybe I'm being to generous, but I guess my personal goal in life is to become more generous in my criticism. ;-) Janice M. Eisen, November 9, 2014 - Reply I happen to know the author (he is my son), and Victor is exactly right. Those are very close to the words he used to tell me about it. It was intended as a loving nod to both Guitar Hero (Bill's generation) and text adventures (mine). Now, obviously, like any work, a game has to stand on its own, and I'm while I'm fond of some of the details and the different endings available, it's not my place to argue with anyone about its quality. Since you were discussing the intent of the game, though, I thought I'd pipe up. |