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- perching path (near Philadelphia, PA, US), August 16, 2009
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10 people found the following review helpful:
One room, a million laughs, July 31, 2009As a rule, successful one-room games are rare enough, even in the world of IF. But J. J. Guest has proven without a doubt that to every rule there is an exception, masterfully combining a plausible plot with completely believable NPCs. You'll have to gave the tinkering abilities of McGyver in order to get rid of the weighty trinkets that your ill-mannered obnoxious pest of a companion has secreted aboard the overloaded craft, which ultimately include him (Spoiler - click to show)as well as a Saint Bernard and his batty old aunt! And, by the time you get to that point, you will be quite willing to plant a boot on their backsides on the way out!
Come take a trip on this balloon - it's a wild ride, but I guarantee you'll enjoy it!
- GDL (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), July 30, 2009
- four1475 (Manhattan, KS), April 10, 2009
- Shigosei, February 2, 2009
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Why you don't want an adventurer on your balloon, February 1, 2009The protagonist of To Hell in a Hamper has a problem: he's taken an IF adventurer on board. That, at least, is my explanation of why his fellow passenger Hubert Booby has collected such a load of junk, and is extremely unwilling to part with it. But part with it he must, or the two of you will fly against an erupting volcano and die!
The rest of the game is a satisfying sequence of puzzles where you have to discover all the stuff that Booby is carrying, and then somehow get rid of it. In some cases this is as simple as throwing it overboard (a Rembrandt painting, for instance), in others it is quite a bit more involved (the boomerang gives an obvious problem, and so does the cursed mummy).
One reviewer complained that you can get rid of some items too early, thus leaving the puzzles unsolvable. This has not been my experience; as far as I could tell, there was always an alternate solution. I cannot absolutely guarantee this, though.
My single complaint is that the game doesn't actually contain that many jokes. It has a good comic setup, and some of the stuff you discover inside Booby's coat is hilarious; but there are few events or descriptions in the rest of the game that make one laugh or smile. This game would have benefited from having Admiral Jota as a co-author; his gift for stuffing a game full of funny remarks would have been very effective here.
- kba (berlin), December 30, 2008
- Lenya, December 25, 2008
- adlo, September 29, 2008
- Otto (France), September 27, 2008
- Genjar (Finland), August 31, 2008
- NotVerySubtle, July 31, 2008
- Timo Saarinen (Finland), July 14, 2008
- Steven (Honolulu, Hawaii), July 4, 2008
- Nathaniel Kirby (Pennsylvania), July 3, 2008
- dfreas, June 29, 2008
- Grunion Guy (Portland), June 7, 2008
- Steve Blanding (Redmond, WA), May 30, 2008
- Emily Boegheim, May 25, 2008
- Eric Mayer, May 18, 2008
- felicitations, May 17, 2008
- Stephen Bond (Leuven, Belgium), May 4, 2008
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