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26 people found the following review helpful:
Practically perfect, September 21, 2009by JonathanCR I can't really add much to what has been said about this game already, except to say that I simply found it virtually perfect. The writing is absolutely beautiful, consistently funny, and often surprisingly moving. That is partly because Grunk, as a character, has such integrity and believability. Although presented as incredibly dense, the way he describes locations and objects, often incorporating quite shrewd observations along the way, suggests that he's not all that stupid at all. That gives him depth and emotional resonance. It must be said also that by having Grunk narrate the game in its entirety offers a neat approach to the problem of who the parser is supposed to be, and whether the narrator of the game is a different person from the PC. This game solves that problem by identifying the PC with the narrator, although at the cost of distancing the player from the PC (if Grunk is telling me what's going on, I'm clearly not Grunk, just in case I'd had any uncertainty on that score). There's no emotional distancing though, because Grunk is so engaging a personality. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (1) - Add comment
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7 people found the following review helpful:
A runaway success, July 27, 2009by Dark-Star (Nebraska) When I first spied this title listed on a favorite IF site, I was somewhat skeptical of the premise. An IF game where the protagonist is an oafish orc? And the objective is to recover a loose pig?! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Ben Cressey (Seattle, WA), July 16, 2009 - GDL (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), July 8, 2009 - Brian Conn (Eureka, California), June 19, 2009 - Sly Curado, June 8, 2009 - ReasonAnce (Poland), May 18, 2009 - Hipster Scumbag, May 4, 2009 - Dannii (Australia), April 28, 2009 5 of
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Casual IF should be a myth, but..., April 27, 2009by Michael R. Bacon (New Mexico) I asked some friends who are not even very computer-savvy to try "Lost Pig" and they became engrossed after a few minutes of user-interface confusion. I had always thought the confusion would be enough to put off the average user (and still do not believe in IF as a profitable venture), but each of them greatly enjoyed the game and wanted to continue playing longer than my laptop was available to them. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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