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I love the smell of armadillo in the mornin', April 14, 2021You're a big trucker with a soft spot for the waitress in a rundown truckstop. You'll have to prove to her you can safely take her accross the mountains to take her away.
Looking for ways to accomplish this, you meet a bunch of colourful characters, each with their weaknesses you can exploit to get a step further to your goal. (I was intrigued by Ranbir the shop owner.)
This could have been a fun comedy game, were it not that it's badly executed.
There are a bunch of typos and missing spaces, not enough synonyms, and often there is a blank line missing above the parser prompt, gluing the response to the previous command onto the next command line.
The game suffers from shoddy implementation. OPEN DOOR gets a response that refers to an obstacle that you just got rid of for example.
And I cringed when I saw this:
(In Convenience Store)
>BUY SODA
"Nothing is on sale."
Not only is it an unforgivable oversight not to implement BUY in a store, the author also managed to use the wrong expression.
[Edit: the expression "on sale" has different meanings in American and British English. Only in American English does it mean "being sold at a lower than usual price". I was wrong, the author was right to use "Nothing is on sale." in this way. Since this was the most grating flaw I experienced, I upped my rating by one]
Two or three more sendbacks to the testers and a lot of attention to detail could make this game a fun little comedy. As it is now however, the lack of careful finish got in the way of my enjoyment.
I look forward to a post-comp release of Mean Mother Trucker, where I might dive right into the comedy.