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This French game in Concours de Fiction Interactive Francophone 2025 was a delight to play. It's a puzzle-focused Vorple game with extensive parser illustrations. Puzzles are fairly simple (although my lack of knowledge of a few words caused me some problems).
While the game doesn't feel small, each part of the game is pretty constrained so there aren't too many options and you are free to experiment till you figure out what to do next. There was one poem that was a bit hard to figure out, and I had the biggest trouble figuring out how to put something on something because I was bad at French (fortunately there are a lot of synonyms!).
The plot is that you are accompanying your master, a detective, to visit a monastery. You have to help him get in, then, the next day, solve a series of mysterious occurrences.
The game does take a pretty dramatic shift in what's possible in the very last act that surprised me, but the art for that part was also very nice. Overall, one of the more fun games I've played in a while.
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Thanks MathBrush!
Do you remember where you had difficulties putting something on something? We definitely mean it to work and it does in most situations.
Oh, I just checked and I think it was me being stupid. I tried to imitate english and say 'mettre _ en__". So it was just bad french. I can change the review to say that I just struggled with the french and not with your game.
Yes, I would appreciate that, because although the game still has to be improved to recognize more ways to do the same thing, we already put a lot of energy into avoiding guess the verb and guess the noun situations. Especially on this "put before the fireplace/fire" or "put on top of the slab" complex situation :)
Putting the pine cone on the stone in front of the fire. That was the hard part. If that’s not enough I can replay and find the exact commands I struggled with!
So, our automated tests check that the following works (some synonymes are not tested but also work. For exemple poser and mettre are equivalent). When adjectives are mentioned, they're not mandatory, but specifying them also works:
> poser la pomme de pin sur la cheminée
> poser la pomme de pin sur la dalle chaude
> poser la pomme de pin sur le bord
> poser la pomme de pin devant la cheminée
> poser la pomme de pin près de la cheminée
> poser la pomme de pin près du feu
Do you think we missed something?
