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Go to the game's main page Member ReviewsNumber of Reviews: 2 Write a review  Appalling, February 24, 2014by forgepoet If there were zero stars, this would be the time for it. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next Mostly Useless, February 24, 2014 - Reply On the contrary, I had to see for myself! There's a comment from the author on the textadventures.co.uk page: "The game (narrative?) was a project for a Digital Writing class that I took in Spring 2013. I had to move on to our other projects. It was an English class, and I'm an English major, so the elements are strictly narrative. I chose a platform that would allow me to simply tell a story. It was, and still may be, a choose your own adventure style game rather than a perverted narrative. That being said, I had no idea that people were browsing/playing the game still. I hope I made you laugh." An English major! Good grief. forgepoet, February 24, 2014 - Reply That explains why the words were strung into recognizable sentences in a coherent order, and why the programming was useless (he didn't care enough about his project to put any effort into the actual mechanics). I wonder if that logic will fly in the real world? "I didn't bother having this report bound, I figured the stockholders could collate it themselves. All the information is in there." And it's interesting to see the reasoning behind leaving it up where people can read it. I would be embarrassed to have this out where people could read it and think it represented the kind of work I did. Most people seem to leave the really bad stuff unrated, and I understand the reasoning there. When a work is below a certain standard, it just feels unkind (and pointless) to take it apart -- like kicking a puppy. But then it becomes difficult when deliberately looking for unrated games to review; do you just slap one star on anything really crappy and call it done? I wish there was a "standards" button you could click, and everyone could see "X members think this is not up to ratable standards" or something. I suppose one could leave an unrated review saying something to that effect. The only reason I actually reviewed this one is because it was distasteful enough that I figured anyone else who thought the title was funny deserved a warning! |