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A fairly well written faintly recalled memory of a fable by Poe, July 22, 2017This review is part of the Official Ryan Veeder Weekend Review Challenge with Guaranteed Prize.
In this game, our intrepid author programs an entire game without a single (actually, with A single) glance at the source material.
The source material was, from the recollection, somewhat disturbing, but the retelling is much more disturbing if approached in the right vein. Have you ever faintly recalled a movie, or story, or dream from your youth that deeply disturbed you? I have half-recollected versions of both It and Castle in the Sky that are much more haunting than the original.
That's what this game is; it condenses all of the most disturbing parts of the game. What's disturbing is not the game, but what it reveals about the human mind, about Veeder's mind, about the things that his brain decided to store up for the future.