First Person

by Buster Hudson profile

2014
Inform 7

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Average Rating: based on 13 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 2
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- Nitori, May 31, 2023

- dollweiss, April 9, 2022

- Edo, November 5, 2021 (last edited on August 17, 2023)

- JimB, October 18, 2020

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A short horror game with an unusual narrative viewpoint, June 30, 2017*
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This is an ectocomp game about a confined, frightening story with an unusual viewpoint suggested by the title of the story.

The game does a very good job at splitting up the parser-viewpoint and the player-viewpoint. It's also fairly grim. I enjoyed this game, but as a speed-IF, it had some spotty implementation.

* This review was last edited on July 16, 2017
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- CMG (NYC), September 14, 2016 (last edited on September 15, 2016)

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
An unsettling parser experiment, June 10, 2016
by verityvirtue (London)
Related reviews: melancholic

[This game concerns a sadistic kidnapper. Please exercise discretion.]

First Person turns the relationship between the parser and the player on its head, making your interaction with the parser into a dialogue of sorts between a kidnapper and the victim. It's very brief. Details are kept to a minimum, to the point of underimplementation - it sometimes feels more like a proof of concept rather than a full-fledged game that one may be immersed into.

First Person is unsettling once you figure out what's going on, and be warned: there are no happy endings in this one. It's worth playing to figure out what's going on with the parser.

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- Sobol (Russia), April 26, 2016

- Simon Deimel (Germany), March 16, 2015

- NJ (Ontario), November 22, 2014

- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), November 21, 2014

- duodave (Pataskala, Ohio), November 10, 2014

- Marco Innocenti (Florence, Italy), November 9, 2014


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