Blue Chairs

Blue Chairs
by Chris Klimas

Surreal
2004

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The Donnie Darko of interactive fiction, December 17, 2009

Blue Chairs is the Donnie Darko of interactive fiction. In other words pretentious meaningless crap!

Surrealism for the sake of it and nothing to back it up. Nothing in the dream sequences has any relation to the main story, nothing in the dream sequences has any internal tie. Blue chairs?! They mean nothing. Surrealism always comes hand in hand with symbolism, but there is none whatsoever in this utter waste of time. I really feel cheated of my time, that's why I won't mention any of the postitive aspects of this "game". None of the NPCs, some of which could have been very interesting if more developed, has any more function than being a placeholder or MacGuffin. And don't get me started about the end!

I would have given a 2 if it were not for the fucking MAZE. (the author uses "fuck" a lot so I do it as well) This is also where the hint system fails.

How can this win any award, let alone best game?!

For a similar, much better, game try Narcolepsy, it's not perfect either but at least it doesn't have a maze!

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AmberShards, December 18, 2009 - Reply
Well, I can't say I agree with the profanity in the review, but I do appreciate you bringing out the fact that the game is littered with it. Pointless surrealism gets my goat, too.

Andreas Teufel, December 20, 2009 - Reply
have you played the game?! only "quoting" from it

Andreas Teufel, December 20, 2009 - Reply
Besides, even the title is misleading.

shows that you don't get the point at all

why should my review tell you what the game is about? you have already played it! new players could read the synopsis of the game somewhere, I don't need to sum it up

like DD (bottom 10 movie), the game makes no sense at all! nothing fits together, nothing has any symbolic meaning, it's just pretentious pretending

prove the opposite!

I mentioned everything that was important to me in my review, don't care what some blinded ignorants think

AmberShards, December 18, 2009 - Reply
No, if he hated it or loved it, his view is as valid as any other. Let the man speak!

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