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She's Actual Size

by Jake Eakle

Episode 3 of Apollo 18 Tribute Album
Surreal
2012

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(based on 10 ratings)
2 reviews

Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: March 26, 2012
Current Version: 6
License: Freeware
Development System: Inform 7
IFID: B370CC5A-1AB6-4F14-BC59-DE7931A279DE
TUID: qyzybg5jryrfb4as

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Chrono Love-Slaves of the 50-Foot Woman, March 28, 2012

A strikingly surreal piece, with the feel of a (feminist?) short story written in the 1960s or 70s, or certainly in a time when people took Freud way too seriously. Unfortunately, version 1 is crippled by some major bugs.

The game has two PCs; one, Paul, obsesses over Lisa and in doing so distorts her reality. While the content is technically PG, Paul's obsession is in a pretty fetishy idiom, and the story as a whole is one of those works (see also Portal, maybe make some change, Loved) that plays heavily on creepy compulsion and manipulation of the player. For the most part, you have very limited options and the game makes it extremely clear what they are. There is one rather odd puzzle, which is less complicated than it looks (which means that it can be solved without being fully understood.)

As of version 1, there's an annoyingly repeating run-time bug (attempt to look up a non-existent correspondence in Table 1) in the second scene, although I can't tell if it breaks anything critical. More seriously, I was unable to finish She's Actual Size due to a major bug later on that failed to switch between protagonists at the appropriate moment. This is a shame, because it's a fascinatingly weird beast.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A two part game with a mysterious mechanic, February 14, 2016

In this game, you play a young man with a huge crush on a girl. You clean up your room to make it ready for when she comes over. You frequently try think about a dream you had about her.

Then you play the girl, who is mysteriously huge. Somehow, your actions in the first half affect what happens to you in the second, and you have to figure out how.

The pattern took me a while, but then the game tries to point it out to you in multiple ways.

I found the story amusing. There was strong profanity on the first page, but not after.


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