IFReviewed by
Emily Short on 2006-08-01 04:29
Played to completion?:
YesHouse or Office:
House/office, in the form of Dr. Kurner's dorm roomRating:
8It's a kind of mercy getting this game after those others — I don't know what's left to come, but I know that I can trust Sousa to code and Ingold, bless and damn him, to come up with something out of the ordinary.
And they did. I am a little appalled to see that even this one has a computer and a password-guessing and a necessary bed and an inescapable bathroom with all the fixtures — did someone declare these items necessary to all comp games? Is this standard-fixture comp?
But never mind. This one has deep black humor, and some excellent injokes. Like BOFH, it manages to transcend the standard-ish elements by describing them wittily and having a good sense of humor. The fake French pills were terrific.
It's not the best game I've ever played, but it towers so far above the average in this competition that it defies description, on the strength of the writing and the wackiness of the premise.
