Game Profile

Author Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster Idiom English Authoring System Inform6 Release Year 2003 IFR Overall Rating

Fantastic way to set backstory. I feel like I'm really listening to the phonograph while rifling through the desk and office, absorbing information bit by bit as I listen, rather than being thrown so much prose in one assault as is often typical of complex IF stories. This is one of the best introductions I've played in recent memory.

Wandering away from the office, however, things begin to seem less immersive, more terse. There's some intrigue with regard to the story, why I'm speaking in tongues, and it seems the author has gone to great lengths to develop a plot and storyline that work with the amnesiac pc, but it just isn't the sort of story that ropes me in. I'd say, however, that this will be different for a great many people and that others will no doubt enjoy it tremendously.