A Day for Fresh Sushi

by Emily Short profile

Humor, Slice of life
2001

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Kudos!, February 4, 2014
by Simon Deimel (Germany)

For a speedIF entry this is an extremely well organized game with well crafted details and a hilariously unpleasant NPF (non-player fish). The atmospheric messages are funny and give a personality to the fish. The game can be solved within a few moves, but the enjoyment of it emerges from realizing the little details found in the room and exploring the life and motives of the acting person.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A Fun Distraction and A Good Introduction To IF, March 20, 2012
by Jim Kaplan (Jim Kaplan has a room called the location. The location of Jim Kaplan is variable.)
Related reviews: emily short, fantasy, one-room, short

Play this game if: You have a fondness for witty banter and a craving for short and easy games.

Don't play this game if: Just play the darn thing.

Something akin to a slice out of a fantasy/soap/comedy webcomic, A Day for Fresh Sushi is short, simple, and fun.

The main reason you'd want to play this - other than as a basic introduction to IF - is of course the fish, the feeding of whom is the objective of the game. It's an objective you may want to put off, though, because the fish's commentary on what you're doing in the meantime is hilarious enough that you may find yourself just trying to get him to react more.

Certainly not the kind of game one plays for a challenge,(Spoiler - click to show)since after all you can win in three turns, A Day for Fresh Sushi is instead an entertaining five-minute distraction.

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- Lipa (Slovenia), September 29, 2011

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A Must-Play, May 22, 2011

This IF is a perfect example of how one-room adventures can be fun and puzzling.

If you gave the topic of feeding a fish in one room to anyone else, it would probably involve sorting through a long list of random objects untill you have to eat it or something.

Overall, a good play, short, fun, and not hard at all....

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- Dave Chapeskie (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), August 4, 2010

- Celestianpower (Gloucestershire, UK), July 25, 2010

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Delicious bite-sized sushi, July 9, 2010

In A Day for Fresh Sushi, instead of trying to cobble together a whole game under the time limit, Short has written one perfectly constructed little scene. It's a few steps away from a one-move game; if you get even slightly lucky you'll win right away, but want to come back to see what happens when you try other things. As other reviews have said, the fish's commentary is hilarious and is really what makes the game. Most of this game is silly with touches of playful romance, but there are deeper elements suggesting a more complex backstory. (Hint: (Spoiler - click to show)look at the painting.)

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- Stickz (Atlanta, Georgia), June 24, 2010


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