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I overall enjoyed this game--two of the puzzles were particularly fun ((Spoiler - click to show)wacky navigation!), and overall it wasn't very hard (although I did peek at the walkthrough once or twice). You have a clear goal and get to explore a limited space and collect items in order to accomplish it.
However, I had nearly completed the game when I discovered that I'd softlocked myself early on. (I also did so another way mid-game, but it was easy enough to go back to an earlier save.) Lacking the motivation to completely start over, I just read the ending in the ClubFloyd transcript. And now I'm mostly writing this review in hopes of saving futures players from my fate!
The big softlock: (Spoiler - click to show)Selling the pillow to the thugs too early. This should be the last thing you do, not the first! (The reason being, (Spoiler - click to show)if you go back to that area after selling it to them, they'll kill you on sight, and you need to go there at the end of the game to (Spoiler - click to show)put the egg in a nest in a tree there.) If you're stuck on how to progress initially, (Spoiler - click to show)take a closer look at the inn's back room.
Another potential softlock at the beginning is (Spoiler - click to show)eating the egg. Don't eat it!!
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I enjoy seeing comments on the Unnkulian games! It's been a long time since I played One-Half but I don't remember falling into any pits.
I played this one right after finishing The Legend Lives! Which I played with the Interactive Fiction Club. Do you have a favorite of the earlier games? I've only played these two so far.
I think Unnkulia Zero may have been the best, objectively. But I and II were the games that first got me into IF when I was an adolescent, and with no preconceptions of other games, and being of the age to be very tickled by their humor/vibe, I have the best memories of those two games.
