Dinner with Andre

by Liza Daly profile

Humor, Romance
2000

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- gattociao, August 23, 2023

- Wanderlust, May 28, 2023

>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction

Solving the game's puzzles requires coming up with the funny response that the game had in mind, and using a less funny but still sensible response, or even a different funny response that the game hadn't envisioned, puts the player at a rather unhelpful dead end. Thus, in the first puzzle I had figured out what I wanted to do, but hadn't come up with the particular funny way of doing this thing that the game was looking for, and therefore I found myself going in ever more frustrating circles. Therefore, if you're anything like me, you probably shouldn't be afraid to turn to the hints in DWA, but once you do, you'll have a pretty good time. If only we could say that about all our disastrous dates.

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- Stian, May 22, 2019

- shornet (Bucharest), October 20, 2018

- Ramona G, February 10, 2017

- lkdc, February 9, 2017

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A mid-length humorous dinner date with a series of disasters, February 4, 2016

This mid-length parser game is the humorous story of a young woman on a date that gets worse and worse. You have to use quick thinking and a bit of slyness to get past overpriced food and clumsy waiters.

The writing is memorable and funny. The puzzles are a bit underclued, though, and many reviewers (including me) turned to the copious hints.

There are two or three puzzles in quick succession, followed by one big, mega puzzle involving a collection of obstructing waiters.

Overall, fun with hints.

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- hoopla, February 15, 2015

- Beable, January 19, 2013

- juliet360 (Louisiana), November 24, 2010

- Audiart (Davis, CA), January 8, 2009

- Nathan (Utah), October 26, 2008

- Rhian Moss (UK), April 4, 2008

- brattish (Canada), April 4, 2008

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

- Matt Kimmel (Cambridge, MA), February 21, 2008

- Dan Schmidt (Boston), January 31, 2008

- Juhana, November 17, 2007

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

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You're on a date, getting ambushed by all sorts of embarrassments and trying to save face. Fun puzzles and nicely goofy feel, though your character can be a bit of a drag--she's so insecure that you may want to shake some sense into her rather than going along with her schemes. Still, everything works well, and there's an enormously funny take on snooty waiters that makes the game worth trying all by itself.

-- Duncan Stevens

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