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- nf, October 30, 2022
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6 people found the following review helpful:
Use mind control for corporate profit--sparingly, October 29, 2022As of writing, this is tied with Esther for the most-reviewed game of IFComp 2022.
It's a fun short Ink game where you have the ability once per night per person to inject corporate slogans into people's brains.
The fun of the game is that you can use your powers to mind read 4 different 'tracks' all night (i.e. following each of the four main NPCs), jumping tracks at will, as well as watching the TV as a 5th track.
Your actions have a variety of drastic side-effects, and strategizing is fun, so I replayed several times. I do think it could have been fun to be a little longer, or have one more person, but overall I found it very impressive.
- Sobol (Russia), October 27, 2022
- reyryan, October 20, 2022
brief vignette of a psychic for hire, October 19, 2022
You are a psychic for hire at this grungy late night diner, and you have one job: make people buy Schtupmeister beers.
There seems to be a small element of randomisation. The writing nails the “grungy” mood pretty well, and each character whose mind you read has a bit of a twist.
I think it works well on ink, creating an impression of a continuous unbroken narration - or, you know, one’s train of thought when doing some light voyeurism.
An enjoyable snack of a game.
- jvg, October 19, 2022
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2 people found the following review helpful:
Fun idea worthy of multiple playthroughs, October 13, 2022In this choice-based game you play as a psychic marketing agent for a lousy beer company. Your job on this night is to order the latest frankenfood off the Extreme Menu!, sit at your booth and use your psychic powers to convince the other patrons to order your company's beer. The game offers you some hints right of the bat if you want them, not cheats, more like strategies, and then you are off. Jump around into the different minds at the restaurant and try to find the right moment to get them to try your beer.
The game offers multiple endings indicating various degrees of success. It follows the pattern of other choice-based puzzle games I've played before, where your ultimate goal is to find the correct path through the story to get the best ending and it requires multiple playthroughs to figure it out.
The writing is decent with some funny moments and colorful, if not deep, characters. There are plenty of things that don't make sense like (Spoiler - click to show)the idea that you can convince a 12-year-old to order beer (the Jr. variety!) or that you can convince a waitress on duty to drink one and then somehow she ends up with a case of it in her car when the night ends (does Applebee's sell beer-to-go now?), but no matter, this game is supposed to be wacky, not realistic.
Overall fun and easy to playthrough 3-4 times quickly to try to figure out the correct path. A good way to spend 15 minutes, but not much more.
- Cerfeuil (*Teleports Behind You* Nothing Personnel, Kid), October 11, 2022
- MoyTW, October 9, 2022
Exactly What It Says on the Tin, October 6, 2022
Short and sweet, with tons of funny and creative details!
I normally just play games through once, but I felt compelled to play this game three times in a row (and, strangely, to drink syrupy beer...). I'd replay it again, just to see what other funny content is hiding in other people's thoughts.
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