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Hot coffee from the samovar?, February 18, 2022Firebird is a loose and at times decidedly anachronistic retelling of a Russian folktale. A few (more-or-less) well-known personages from Russian culture make an appearance, there is the common recurrence of groupings of three (three gradually harder obstacles, three gradually more difficult foes,...) Despite the superficial references to Russian culture, however, the PC is basically a standard "adventure-prince". The PC actually acknowledges his own role as he yearns for a simpler life of making his own sandwiches and eating them in the forest. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to derail the game's narrative towards an alternative ending where your prince gets to do exactly that. (He could take advantage of his lone quest to just vanish and go live as a farmer...) Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Zape, December 20, 2020 - kierlani, April 30, 2020 4 of
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A classic which just needs a little more fleshing out, October 25, 2019This game is one of the first "modern" IF games that I played (probably my first download after playing Adventure), and the story has stuck with me through the years; although I couldn't remember all the details prior to this evening's replaying, I knew there was a part with a certain cute semiaquatic carnivorous mammal coming up which I liked. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Denk, June 3, 2017 - Lucifalle, April 25, 2017 - Audiart (Davis, CA), February 27, 2017 - IFforL2 (Chiayi, Taiwan), January 17, 2017 2 of
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A lengthy retelling of a Russian folk tale in parser form, July 30, 2016by MathBrush This game does a good job of recreating the feel of an old Russian folk tale, similar to the feel in Grimm's fairy tales. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Oleg Oleg Aney (Smolensk, Russia), July 30, 2016 3 of
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Never thought I'll visit the island Bouyan in IF, February 23, 2016by Sobol (Russia) A curious mix of Russian folklore and American humor. Being a Russian, I was delighted to see familiar fairytale motives and phrases like "speedily a tale is spun, with much less speed a deed is done" (скоро сказка сказывается, да не скоро дело делается), "are you here to shirk a task or to find one?" (дела пытаешь аль от дела лытаешь?), "three times nine" (тридевять), etc. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Guenni (At home), January 24, 2016 - Thrax, March 11, 2015 1 of
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Folk tale hero, February 6, 2014by neoshaman This is a great little gem of a game that is exactly as advertised. Russian folk tales converted into an adventure. Granted, I don't know much about Russian folk tales, but many of the elements seem right out of Grim's Fairy tales. The prevalence of threes, the animals, etc. This game is also not without a good dose of humor. MOST of the actions I thought to do were accounted for, but some really obvious sounding solutions are conspicuously absent. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Shadow Fox (Texas), April 17, 2013 - amciek (Opole), May 19, 2012 - Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), May 14, 2012 - MKrone (Harsleben), February 18, 2012 - sunny and mild (South Africa), October 4, 2011 2 of
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Good game, September 24, 2011by frsh It does have some bugs and it gets confused with words a lot (try pouring the fountain water in the bucket while you have the water of life in your inventory, this results in a bug, so don't do it). You have to be very specific with the parser. There are some puzzles where there is the possibility of making the game unwinnable if you don't want to resort to violence (Spoiler - click to show)when you try to recover your things from the ferrymen. There should be another way to take your things back from them other than killing them with the sword, that solution besides being generic and uncreative is not very well thought out on behalf of the author, also if (Spoiler - click to show)you don't rescue the hawk in time, etc. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Jonathan Blask (Milwaukee, WI, USA), April 4, 2011 - lagran-G-an (Tel-Aviv, Israel), July 15, 2010 - Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle), February 15, 2010 - lupusrex (Seattle, WA), October 4, 2009 - Shigosei, February 18, 2009 - Otto (France), May 28, 2008 - Lady Sarah (Portland, Oregon), March 7, 2008 - NiMuSi (London, UK), February 24, 2008 Baf's GuideA pleasant game, made of various bits of Russian folk tales, plus extraneous elements added for humorous effect. You play Prince Ivan, the youngest of three brothers and the last to be sent in search of the firebird that's been stealing your father's golden apples. Lots of threefold repetitions and other fairy-tale motifs. Easy puzzles, a few lengthy noninteractive scenes, and something like a maze (but mappable on a grid). Consistently amusing, with lots of exaggeration (including some exaggerated violence). A joy to play. Beginners will probably like this one. -- Carl Muckenhoupt
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