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Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: Release 2.1 License: Freeware Development System: TADS 2 Baf's Guide ID: 120 IFID: TADS2-8BBC3FA8D2BEC823E30F740A1D05C3E1 TUID: n72opv7350erqo4c |
Awards
Winner, Best NPCs; Winner - Evan, Best Individual NPC - 1996 XYZZY Awards
5th Place - 2nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1996)
Editorial Reviews
Baf's Guide

-- Carl Muckenhoupt
SPAG
The setting, though collegiate, is nonetheless unique. By focusing on the personalities of John's friends, and interlacing them with some extremely imaginative puzzles, "Kissing" avoids the pitfalls and cliches of the college I-F genre and makes for genuine entertainment. This game is bust-a-gut funny and very well-implemented [...]
-- C.E. Forman
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The PCs are well-written and entertaining. The puzzles are early-90's standard: a series of events that seem logical afterwards, but which ignore many alternative solutions (for instance, you can't (Spoiler - click to show)tape the wrapper or the towel across the hole in the window).
Good for fans of busy, interactive rooms of NPCs.
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