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Review
Violent Delight reminds me of Disneyland. Not because it tries to be creepy (although there is that) but because you've got plenty of waiting in line (enough to make a person insane) before you actually get to go on the rides.
Sitting at home, you bid for a creepy video game cartridge and wait for it to arrive. Yes, I meant 'wait' literally. You'll have to wait an absurdly long time (in real time) before the cartridge arrives, although you can also try to hurry the delivery up (to no useful effect).
Once it arrives, you mess with the cartridge and try out different levels. In between, you can mess with the cartridge to unlock more and more scary levels, with some crudely drawn pictures which supposedly get more horrifying, as well as some text making references to going on. By the way, there're also plenty of wait times here once you mess with the cartridge and prepare for your next romp. Of course, as you descend even further down the levels, you might find yourself breaking something, before the whole world goes to oblivion.
There are some geniunely good ideas and scares here, although the crude art struggles to convey the horror aspects. The ending portion where you end up breaking the cartridge as you continue to mess with it, before watching your existence blow up in your face, was pretty good.
That said, the whole wait time thing feels very excessive, to the point of being obnoxious. Yeah, I get it, the game is trying to convey an idea through the wait times, but there really should have been a less obnoxious way to do this. All I did was open up my own projects to do my own writing in between the wait times, which certainly detracted from the gaming and horror experience. I put my IFcomp two hour playthrough timer on hold while tabbing away to do something else, but I just can't walk away without criticizing this aspect of the game. After the ending scares, the first thing that came to my mind was simply 'glad all the waiting's over.'
Anyway, grab a cup of soda and watch some anime while waiting. It might detract from those scares, but there's no reason you should be staring at a load screen till the end of the world.
