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It's been a very long time since I read Wuthering Heights; I can remember the names Heathcliff and Catherine and little else. So I was worried that my faded memories of the book might limit my enjoyment of the game. They didn't.
That's because there's no game here. There's hardly anything at all, as far as I can tell. No takeable objects, no NPCs, no puzzles, nothing. You can wander through seven rooms, examine the few objects which the author took the time to implement, observe the numerous misspellings, and then quit. There are a half-dozen locked doors, but no keys, and the game does not understand the word "door" at any rate. The only ending appears to be in response to examining the dog (I won't even dignify that with a spoiler tag). The help text encourages the player to "find all of the mansion's hidden secrets!". They must be awfully well-hidden.
I don't understand why the game was posted to IFDB in this state.
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The parallel structure of these two reviews leaves the strong impression that they, and the game as well, were all written by Jacek Pudlo. The game isn't really a game at all, it's just a thumb jabbed into the eye of anybody who cares about interactive fiction.
I can assure you that I'm not Pudlo; you can look at my profile here, the game I've authored, and the other reviews I've written. I don't think there's anything particularly Pudlovian about any of them. The review by nhadala was simply a mocking comment on mine, written by the author himself or one of his friends.
I do agree with your assessment of the game's quality, but I doubt very much that it was written by Pudlo, either. Whatever you want to say about him, he has shown that he can make a pretty good game (Gamlet). If he were trolling the community with a deliberately bad game, I think he'd at least want some publicity and submit it to a comp or something.
