![]() ![]() ![]() It didn’t help that the first puzzle was an excessively complex try everything-with-everything sort of deal I understand subsequent rooms may be better. There were some funny wacky bits, like the hamster’s reactions and your bunny costume, but I didn’t want to keep playing. ![]() “Beta Tester”: The writing was compulsively wacky and the gimmick of making you repeatedly hit “space” to get to the next bit of text grew old real fast. I had read some reviews (the less spoily bits) that made me look forward to it apprehensively, the game came on very over-the-top, which admittedly can be cool in a kind of Bulwer-Lyttony way (though you almost never need to describe something as “eerie” and “frightening,” and definitely not in the same paragraph), and then… “Condemned” is the one I was blatantly unfair to. There will be some less spoilery comments before a spoiler space, some more spoilery ones after. They are Spelunker’s Quest, The Grand Quest, Eruption, Condemned, Beta Tester, and The Believable Adventures of an Invisible Man. Though to be fair (to me), the filler text was longer than the transcript and took more time to write than the game took to play.Īll these games can be played online. Also that I realized it was silly to write a review that took more time to write than the game took to play and was longer than the game transcript. It’s just that I don’t necessarily have that much to say about them, and one of the other reviewers has probably said most of what I want to. That I’m giving them short reviews shouldn’t be taken as a judgment on their quality, and in fact I’m being blatantly unfair to one of them. This entry contains short reviews of a lot of games. ![]() My reviews will be categorized under “ IFComp.” These are text-adventure games, arty to various degrees, meant to be be judged in under two hours of play. Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever.I’ve been playing some of the games from the 2009 IF Comp. ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 104, MAY 6, 1893***Į-text prepared by Lesley Halamek, Juliet Sutherland,Īnd the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team With this eBook or online at Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, LYTTONY DRESSES LICENSE ( Respectfully addressed to one of the Promoters of the Anti-Advertisement Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 104, May 6th 1893 edited by Sir Francis Burnand Would have done far better to have chosen One of his own Height!" I'm sure they'll be happy,Įlderly Spinster aforesaid ( who has had her eye on Sir Guy for the " I'm glad Maud is going toīe Married to Sir Guy. ( A Cockney Carol by a cruelly-used Coster-Investor. Which will punish a director who scandalously neglects his duty, though he At the same time, there is no criminal law It is a cruel thing that people should be deluded out of their It would be more satisfactory to me if directors had a proper sense of their ["I desire to express, and I cannot do it too strongly, that there is noĬredit to be attached to the conduct of the directors in this particular case. Shakspearian Question to a Company.-( To be replied to in the Usual, as the-ahem!-odours certainly are? The tide being high? If so, is the tide sometimes higher than Odours noticeable at certain times arise from the fact of Query at some Fashionable Sea-side Resort.-Do the unpleasant Mister Justice 'Awkins is a fust-class Judge! Strikes me wot is called the Law is often fuss, and fraud, and fudge! P'raps it may be one day, but were it next Monday, Wot sez 'Enery 'Awkins, 'onest 'Enery 'Awkins? Jest about the sweetest, neatest, and completest Hartful as a "bonnet," you depend upon it, I think the law might well be altered."- Mr. Negative.)-"What, are you Hansard yet?" ( Mer. ![]()
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