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 A surrealist amuse-bouche, December 10, 2020Hey, it’s another game about waiting for the bus! As I made clear in my What the Bus? review, I am here for this kind of content. While both games are more about the journey than the destination, the Pinecone isn’t an absurdist descent into a transit nightmare, but a short, surrealist vignette (it’s sufficiently short and surrealist that I don’t want to go into details – you’re waiting for a bus, and as the cover indicates there’s a pinecone and at least one goat who enter into the proceedings). The author notes that this was adapted from a piece of static flash-fiction, and that’s the source of the game’s greatest strength, as well perhaps of its limitations. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Goatlore, December 2, 2020The Pinecone is a very quick piece of IF with a few branches, all of which are related to goatlore. It does not seem to carry any deeper meaning, but is somewhat imaginative and slightly entertaining. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Odd and Entertaining, December 2, 2020by Ann Hugo (Canada) "The Pinecone" is definitely a peculiar game, a short peculiar game. It rather made me think of one of those odd picture books the librarian would read to my class when I was little. You really need to experience it yourself; it's hard to describe. It's definitely worth the few minutes it takes to play. I played it a few times, and it's certainly enjoyable. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Another absurdist game from the author, November 19, 2020This game is the author's second entry into IFComp 2020, along with an equally absurd game, "The Turnip". You play a student waiting for a bus when a herd of goats come walking down the street. From there things get really weird. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Rumination, October 19, 2020by Dawn Sueoka Surprising, odd, well written, and nicely designed, with an allusion to something like climate change and changing demographics (unless "kids" refers to goats and not children). For such a small, contained story, the number, type, and scale of the choices felt appropriate to me. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A very brief game about an odd encounter with a pinecone and a goat, October 13, 2020Like many have said, this is quite similar to The Turnip. It's by the same author, they're both the same length, have the same styling, have the same setup. They also feature large and puzzling agricultural specimens and kindness to animals. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Totes McGotes!, October 3, 2020by deathbytroggles (Minneapolis, MN) What a delightful little story. This has the charm of Birdland without the depth. And it also has goats, and you can’t go wrong with goats. The color scheme and text is very easy on the eyes, and the prose is whimsical. There are four paths and they can all be found in about ten minutes. I can’t say I’ll ever come back to this but it was a charming interlude during the 2020 IFComp. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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