Galatea

by Emily Short profile

Mythological
2000

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- Rhian Moss (UK), March 28, 2008

5 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
Sex is NG, March 28, 2008
by isd (Tokyo)

I tried to ask about sex then the game ended... because sex is a NG conversation topic it seems.
I guess I mistook the piece of art for "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon".

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- lobespear, March 17, 2008

- jfpbookworm (Hamburg, New York), February 25, 2008

- Dan Schmidt (Boston), January 31, 2008

- Ziixxxitria (California), January 26, 2008

- Michel Nizette (Brussels, Belgium), January 18, 2008

- incandenza (carrboro, north carolina), January 17, 2008

- Wendymoon, January 13, 2008

- Dannii (Australia), January 10, 2008

- Matt Poush (Des Moines, Iowa), January 6, 2008

- Havoc Crow, December 25, 2007

- RichCheng (Warwickshire, UK), December 19, 2007

- PSilk (London, UK), November 29, 2007

- VK, November 26, 2007

- Naeradan, November 20, 2007

- ErWenn (Bloomington, IN), November 18, 2007

- Benjamin Sokal (Elysium pod planting enclosure on Mars), November 14, 2007

- protobob, November 8, 2007

4 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Interesting, but I couldn't get into it, November 7, 2007
by Kake (London, England)
Related reviews: Emily Short, ***

Although I really like the premise of this, and I had a fair bit of sympathy/empathy for Galatea-the-character, I don't feel I really enjoyed the game, despite around twenty replays. It may be my playing style, but I found it very easy to fall into repetitive dead-ends, and I never managed to find an ending that I thought was really satisfying.

I very much don't want this review to put anyone else off playing Galatea, though; the time spent on playing is a worthwhile gamble.

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- Nusco (Bologna, Italy), October 31, 2007

- Mortchek (United States), October 28, 2007

- Brian Slesinsky (California), October 27, 2007

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Futile Guesswork, October 26, 2007
by AmberShards (The Gothic South)

Are you ready to be clobbered over the head with the 2x4 of modern man-hating female disparagement? If so, Galatea is the game for you. Many have crowed about the interactivity, but interactivity with a self-righteous female, statue or no, is not enjoyable. (Modern spineless males will enjoy the exercise in self-torture, doubtless.) Because the game goals are so vague, there's no real way to advance to the next state of conversation without playing an updated version of "guess the verb" called "guess the conversation topic". Thirty minutes of futile guesswork was enough for me. Galatea gets two stars for coding genius alone. As far as games go, it's a dud.

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- Stephen Bond (Leuven, Belgium), October 26, 2007


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