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""We really think you'll like this one, see you on the other side!" ...and suddenly the room is ripped away. Air slams into your chest as you struggle to breathe and inky blackness swirls in at the edge of your vision. Stars everywhere...and then nothing, the feeling of being underwater wraps itself around you." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
Awards
13th Place - 7th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2001)
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:    Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
This game has you wandering an enormous mansion, exploring room after room, with hidden passages and a strange woman in the library.
I enjoyed it, but only because I used hints. The game has the sort of thing where you have 20 similar rooms and one of them has a scenery item that can be used.
The author is a little too smarmy; if you type nothing, you get "Let me explain something here; you're playing a text adventure...no text, no adventure, get it?". That kind of 'oh silly player' attitude is prevalent. It has a lot of poetry and some physical simulation (freezing and melting in an optional puzzle, flushing toilet, etc.)
1 Off-Site Review
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In point of fact, the majority of the game consists of wandering around the author's fantasy house. How do I know it's the author's fantasy house? Simple: he embroidered his name on the handtowels. All throughout the place are rich-dude features like marble, seashell-shaped sinks, mahogany furniture, deep pile carpet, massive gardens, statuary, and so on. The kitchen has a freaking stainless steel floor, for heaven's sake.
This idea is a few degrees off of the well-known and deeply-dreaded "here's an implementation of my house" genre, but only a few. There are some puzzles, at least, but they're not really original enough puzzles to compensate for the poor writing, misleading claims, and the general vacuousness of the setting.
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Current Version: Unknown
License: Freeware
Development System: TADS 2
Baf's Guide ID: 1687
IFID: TADS2-88ACFF12027F65D167811DA2BAC1BF84
TUID: xw8xd1lbofouvb0t
Referenced in Easter Egg Hunt 2020, by David Welbourn
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