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Fun, whacky but a bit tricky, January 24, 2013by Campbell (Edinburgh, Scotland) This was the game that got me into Interactive Fiction all those years ago. I remember many a lunchtime rushing down to the computer lab to see if I could get any further. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Terrible, despite the nostalgia., April 24, 2010by Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle) Jacaranda Jim was the first IF I ever played. It was, to put it mildly, not a brilliant game; the tone is wacky-morose-snark in that Douglas Adams style that's unbearable when done by anybody other than Douglas Adams. It was clearly aware of this. The world doesn't make a vast amount of sense now, and it made even less sense to an eight-year-old. It kills you a lot. It traps you permanently in certain rooms. It has a sidekick character, Alan the Gribbley, who is both revolting and useless. When I wrote off for the map and my one hint, the former turned out to be larger by several orders of magnitude than the area I had actually managed to explore. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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