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The fear of the dark, ghosts, and things that crawl in the night...they all pale next to the terror of MATHPHOBIA!
It's Halloween night, and an adventure you never expected to experience is about to happen...
Your math teacher has given an unusual assignment for the holiday - give him a piece of candy, or do an enormous number of math problems! Unfortunately, your super-strict parents have forbidden you to go trick-or-treating, so it seems that you have no choice but to buckle down and spend the entire night doing math...
But after a strange visitor comes to your window, you find yourself transported to a strange and spooky world threatened by the evil Archfiend of Arithmetic! You'll need your math skills to overcome this villain - can you do it before you succumb to MATHPHOBIA?
Entrant, Le Grand Guignol - English - ECTOCOMP 2024
As a math teacher, I had to try this game first.
'Mathphobia?' I said, my nostrils flaring in mingled rage and excitement. 'Is this an ANTI-MATH game????'
Fortunately, it's not. Well, kind of...
You play as a kid who is forced to do 500 math problems on Halloween since you didn't go trick or treating to get candy for your teacher.
But you soon are transported to a magical land like phantom tollbooth where monsters such as the Specter of Subtraction try to attack you.
All challenges are defeated by use of math, starting with extremely easy problems (like 8 plus 4) and moving to harder problems like sequence finding, number factoring, fraction simplification and trick problems.
I proudly conquered each problem by hand except one where I suspected a trick, plugged it into calculator to check, then confirmed the trick (so I failed at doing it all myself!).
This game is much longer than it first appeared, with 5 main antagonists and sections between antagonists with 4 or more puzzles.
Outside of the math puzzles, the game seems completely linear. Going back and entering some answers incorrectly, it looks like it gives you another chance.
This was fun. I sent it to another math teacher to try out.