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About the StorySomeone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who.A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder. Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: April 6, 2016 Current Version: Unknown Development System: Inform 7 Forgiveness Rating: Merciful IFID: Unknown TUID: ec6x9y8qcmsrxob9 |
Awards
Nominee, Best Game; Winner, Best Story; Nominee, Best Setting; Winner, Best NPCs; Nominee, Best Individual NPC; Nominee, Best Individual PC - 2016 XYZZY Awards
1st Place - First Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction
46th Place - Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2019 edition)
Entrant, Back Garden - Spring Thing 2016
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Foo Foo: cuddly genius, October 7, 2020Some isolated thoughts:
I don't know if I can get enough of the concept of small cuddly stuffed animals being embroiled in a hardboiled noir story. A few of my favorite quotes for the sake of cuteness (minor spoilers):
(Spoiler - click to show)Lions, tigers, and bears, all beautifully crafted, lifelike. Malice flashes in their beady plastic eyes. They reach into their own stuffing and withdraw a handgun each.
(Spoiler - click to show)
You hold Doohickey up in front of your face and get licked softly and dryly, because his tongue is made of felt.
>pet doohickey
Doohickey wags his tail.
The worldbuilding is great, the action is thrilling, the twists are spectacular, and the ending broke my heart a little bit.
My only complaint is (major spoiler) (Spoiler - click to show)when Sabado tells you to get anything "with wish powder on it" out of the area, I thought he was referring to any stuffed animals that were still 'alive', and so didn't realize that he was also referring to the pouch of wish powder. Other than that, everything's quite clear and well-laid-out.
Sharp-witted noir under a fluffy covering, March 30, 2018If you like Jasper Fforde’s Jack Sprat series, a novel series giving a noir spin to nursery rhymes, you’ll probably enjoy this. All the field mice have been leaving town; someone’s been bopping heads - and it’s up to you, Fairy Detective, to find out why.
Hudson’s writing is extremely readable, and while the characters may be talking fluffy animals, there is sharpness underneath. The forces working in the town are the familiar push and pull of racism and the search for better opportunities, anthropomorphism or not.
Foo Foo is directed enough that I could figure most things out with just a little guidance and some in-game hints. Overall a well-written murder mystery, with an intriguing setting that I enjoyed.
Delightful and well crafted, March 8, 2018The narrative was witty and entertaining; the locations were nicely set out with not too much to-ing and fro-ing; the puzzles weren't particularly difficult but none-the-less kept me playing.
The npc characterisations were good and although very limited in interactivity, presented enough variety in the responses not to come across as 'token'.
As a small gripe, the 'easy-exit' presented at the beginning seemed unnecessary - with this available, I would perhaps have preferred a form of score so you would know how you did when exiting.
I definitely recommended this.
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