Masque of the Last Faeries

by Ian Ball

2000
Mystery
Inform 6

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A murder mystery wrapped up in a long faery-poem driven gala, July 7, 2017*
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This is an interesting game, with many elements reminiscent of Infocom's Suspect, but much simpler.

You are attending a Faerie masque that a neighbor has thrown; in this masque, everyone has a costume and a role to say.

About half of the game consists of listening to the gala instructions (basically a big cosplay or LARP, all in rhyme), and solving easy riddles. Then it gets harder, and weird.

I liked it, though. It has some layers of mystery that are never unveiled, and which you are left to deduce for yourself, which I was unable to do.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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