So Far

by Andrew Plotkin profile

1996
Surreal
Inform 5


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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Horribly unfair, hauntingly beautiful, March 29, 2008
by jingold (UK)

There are very few bits of IF that have stayed with me and will do forever. So Far is one of them, which in a way is a terrible shame, because it's almost impossible to share with anyone else. The game is famously difficult and cruel (it's the only game I can think of that actively encourages players to do self-destructive things) and to say I got through it without hints would be a lie, lie, lie. But it was a beautiful thing, finely wrought, casting shadows across itself like a spinning sundial. It made me feel horribly jealous not to have written it and deeply privileged to have played it. Sigh -- those were the days...

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