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About the Story
Your lover Black left, and your days are full of loneliness. Your progress in finding him, however, is blocked by none other than the Devil himself; and to get rid of him, you must commit the seven deadly sins. And that is just the beginning...
[--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Awards
Nominee, Best Setting; Nominee - defeating the Kunkel, Best Individual Puzzle; Nominee - The devil, Best Individual NPC - 1997 XYZZY Awards
9th Place - 3rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (1997)
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:   Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
This game heavily references early interactive fiction and the usenet groups. I was not involved in the community in the 90's or even the aught's, but the ifwiki page for this game has a little bit of background. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this game in the same way one enjoys Gulliver's Travels or Don Quijote without familiarity with the things they are parodying.
You have a mimesis plant (a joke explained in the game), and you have to commmit the seven deadly sins with it. Once you do, you progress to two more areas, encountering foes and friends.
The game heavily references the following:
-John's Fire Witch. An early puzzle game where you have to collect seven sins to get by a devil.
-Curses! The game contains three of the most important objects in Curses! and spoils the game a bit.
-So Far. The game mimics the ending of So Far, spoiling that ending.
-Jigsaw. The game is framed in terms of the main NPC from Jigsaw having abandoned you. It references some activities in Jigsaw.
In addition, it names 7 games to represent the seven sins, and contains one room each from games such as Adventure, So Far, Zork I, and so on.
I like works about the genre they are part of (like The Book with No Pictures for children's books). If you like self-referential work, I recommend this game.
3 Off-Site Reviews
Baf's Guide
This game basically consists of a slew of rec.arts.int-fiction in-jokes strung together. In a riff from John's Fire Witch, you must gather seven text adventures representing the deadly sins. After that, it just gets sillier. Features a hint menu.
-- Carl Muckenhoupt
>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction
There aren't many games which I would highly recommend to one group of people and discourage others from playing, but Sins is one of them. If you're an raif and rgif regular, I think you'll find Sins quite funny and entertaining. If not, forget it. It's bound to be more baffling and irritating than anything else.
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SynTax
Reading, for example, the description of the devil above, you will, I am sure, agree that the game is well written. It exudes atmosphere and this adds greatly to the game. However, I found Sins Against Mimesis to be a little bit weird for my liking but this is my personal taste. [...] To sum up, Sins Against Mimesis is fairly short (a pre-requisite of competition games), well written and fun to play.
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Game Details
Current Version: Release 3
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 6
Baf's Guide ID: 139
| IFIDs: | ZCODE-1-970925-3FF3 |
| ZCODE-3-980110-D1D0 |
Makes reference to John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
Makes reference to Curses, by Graham Nelson
Makes reference to So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Makes reference to Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
Makes reference to Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty
Makes reference to Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones
Makes reference to In the End, by Joe Mason
Makes reference to The Incredible Erotic Adventures of Stiffy Makane, by Mark Ryan
Makes reference to Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky
Makes reference to Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
Makes reference to Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
Makes reference to Adventureland, by Scott Adams
Makes reference to Pirate Adventure, by Scott Adams and Alexis Adams
Sins Against Mimesis on IFDB
Recommended Lists
Sins Against Mimesis appears in the following Recommended Lists:Games about interactive fiction itself by MathBrush
This is hopefully my last list. These are games that comment on the nature of interactive fiction or the interactive fiction community itself. The quality of these games varies wildly, and this list doesn't attempt to sort by quality....
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The following polls include votes for Sins Against Mimesis:This Is Who We Are by Sam Kabo Ashwell
A considerable number of games exist largely as the commentary of the IF community (or some subset of it) upon the medium and the community itself. These works are likely to be befuddling to outsiders, but provide windows onto blah blah...
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