Bloody Raoul

by Caleb Wilson (as Ian Cowsbell) profile

Part of Saturnine
2017

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Comic violence with an ornate edge, September 12, 2018
by verityvirtue (London)
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The game world suggests one accustomed to sudden, almost comic violence, where one’s weapons are identity. The comic aspect, however, takes some of the edge (ahem, mind the pun) off: to aid surgery, for instance, the PC comes with a “pectoral zipper”.

The world described here is festering and disgusting, but with the embellished, ornate language, the terse phrasing, we readers are, at least, one step away from all that.

(Spoiler - click to show)It is striking that there are no completely happy endings here. There is no escape to a less violent future - not without relinquishing your identity as a knife punk. As much as I would love to see more in the same universe, I get the feel that this universe is most intriguing in small snippets.

Bloody Raoul is brutish and short, but not nasty at all. If you liked this, you might like The Unstoppable Vengeance of Doctor Bonesaw, from the same author.

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- CMG (NYC), November 7, 2017

- E.K., November 6, 2017

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A very original short gruesome story in an alt-historical universe, November 6, 2017
by MathBrush
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This was a strange game. When I started it, I thought, 'Oh, so this is writing which might be something really good, or just fluff'. As I played through, it all sort of fell together, and I liked it.

It's bizarre; a sort of mix between 80's neon punk and Jack the Ripper's London. Plus some of ancient Rome thrown in.

I had a bit of trouble at first figuring out what to do, but I grasped it in the end. I think this was my favorite of La Petite Morte, and perhaps of the whole Ectocomp competition.

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- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), November 4, 2017


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