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About the StoryThis game is sort of a parody of a very short game that is already a parody. The game this is sorta based on is Pick Up the Phone Booth and Dye by Eric Schmidt(I think that's his name). You will most likely have to play Eric's game to fully understand mine. Not that you would really want to. Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: Unknown License: Freeware Development System: ADRIFT Baf's Guide ID: 1887 IFID: ADRIFT-400-25F4977D7B8DF28322DF945809826F43 TUID: xhdmyb5lns3ta9ru Spoof of Pick Up the Phone Booth and Dye, by Eric Schmidt Spoof of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes |
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Parodyception, December 14, 2020The meta is strong with this one. It's a parody of Pick Up the Phone Booth and Dye, which is itself a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, and you'll want to play both of those games first in order to fully appreciate Pick up the phone booth and Cry.
Compared to the rest of the PUTPBAD corpus, this game has two salient features. First, it gleefully embraces and even intensifies the cruel, mocking sense of humor that the original established. Second, it's riddled with typos and grammatical errors.
Whereas the original PUTPBAD explored the antagonistic relationship between the protagonist and the phone booth, this game follows in the footsteps of Dye by rather focusing on the internal struggle of the protagonist. It's a case of player vs. self, as you seek to win the game in spite of your own limitations. But whereas in Dye this struggle is eminently practical in nature - you (Spoiler - click to show)can only lift one thing at a time and need to find a way around this - in Cry what we get is a protagonist who struggles against their own mental and emotional weaknesses as they try in desperation to solve a seemingly insurmountable puzzle. The protagonist is portrayed as pitiful and pathetic... for laughs.
Perhaps, in a game with better writing, I could have found the humor in this. But when combined with all the typos and poor grammar, it just comes off as crude.
Parody of a parody of a joke game, February 6, 2022Pick Up The Phone Booth And Cry is a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Dye, which itself is a parody of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die (a very simplistic joke game). Pretty much all the humor has been bled out by this point.
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