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39th Place - 22nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2016)
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This game is a sequel to The Problems Compound. It is not one of my favorite Andrew Schultz games. Schultz has made some brilliant games, like Threediopolis and Shuffling Around, that are based on wordplay and puzzles, where the player has to use wordplay tricks to come up with commands.
This game and its predecessor have some small elements like that, but are mostly big set-pieces there to show off silly word reversals. These word reversals, while clever, are difficult to understand at times, and lead to a disjointed game world. This game was polished, but shorter than Problems Compound.
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The Breakfast Review
"Slicker City" is a sequel to last year's "The Problems Compound", and a number of the comments then still apply. We're still dealing with a surreal, whimsical setting derived from word-phrase reversals. The prose tends towards a rather high degree of introspection--I didn't comment on this last year, so perhaps it's heavier and more noticeable this year. Mostly, it's a standard IF puzzler, or at least that's how it begins.
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First Publication Date: October 1, 2016
Current Version: Unknown
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform
IFID: ADF22EF9-F667-46ED-A699-4E2B82BDD602
TUID: ko4maqk88u25370u
Sequel to The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz
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