IFReviewed by
Emily Short on 2006-08-01 04:35
House or Office:
OfficePlayed to completion?:
NoRating:
4On the good side, at least the office is not set in the modern day. Also, you're allowed to leave it. On the minus side, the quality of the descriptions is rather variable, and sometimes includes things like "The palace gate stands grandiloquent before you." as the entire room description. Surely Bohemia has more to see than that. Much scenery is unexaminable.
There are some weird things about the UI, especially the way talking to the tobacconist works: the screen clears and then the NPC's answer to your question appears, without punctuation. I found this disconcerting, as it made the flow of the game difficult to follow. For good or ill, most of the other NPCs didn't seem to want to talk to me at all, which was unfortunate, since interrogating NPCs seemed the main course of action when most of the scenery was obviously useless.
I also just didn't know where to get started, really. I read the solution, at which point there didn't seem much point in actually going through the game.
