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DeL SoL MADNESS Reviews
Author: Alvin Echeverria
Date: 2008
ADRIFT 4.0
Reviewed by Duncan Bowsman
SCORE: 4
Comments: Obviously, I did not go to the same high school as this author. Nolsen
is a "regular" student, but spends his time sleeping through classes,
smoking dope, and having girls throw themselves at him left & right (making out
with them left & right). Player is instructed he/she may LOOK AT TEACHER, but
this task rarely-- if ever-- works. The alternative reality/dream sequence
scheme was interesting, but executed somewhat poorly. Use of ADRIFT's combat
system did not help this game. Overall, felt thrown-together & sloppy,
writing lacks unity of effect shown by the comp's stronger entries. As
with R2DC, some representations seem worrying. I respect I may not be this
game's target audience.
Reviewed by David Welbourn
SCORE: 1
Comments: I gave up on this one pretty quickly. The prologue mentions several
specialized commands to use, and none of them actually work. At least, not
those exact
phrases. There's almost nothing in the initial classroom to look at or interact
with, so you're left with guess-the-phrase right from the start. Not good.
Mark Tilford
SCORE: 1
Comments: Don't be discouraged. Writing IF takes skill at programming and
writing, and to be able to do it well in the three hours allotted for the comp
takes a lot of practice.
Mel S
SCORE: 2
Comments: Wow. I guess the first thing to notice about the game is that it
doesn't seem to have anything to do with Halloween at all, which is a bit odd
considering this was a competition set up for Halloween games. But, judging it
as some surreal nonsensical high school simulator, it's kind of fascinating in
it's extreme weirdness. The game doesn't really work or make sense and there's
countless problems with spelling and writing but I still kept playing just to
see what bizarre thing would happen next. I've never played a game that allowed
me to both repeatedly make out with a girl behind a band saw and battle satanic
acidic sponges, and maybe human eyes were never supposed to witness these things
together in a game, but there was still something oddly intriguing about it.
Reviewed by Lumin
SCORE: 2
Comments: Lots and lots of typos and spelling errors, even for a three hour
game...though unfortunately typos aren't the worst of the problems - the premise
is interesting (even if it barely fits the theme), but in practice the game is
basically unplayable, at times bordering on incomprehensible when you're dealing
like things like invisible gamblers showing up during physics class. As I said,
I liked the IDEA of the plot and the decision (rather than object) based
gameplay, but it clearly needed more than three hours of work to do it justice.
Reviewed by Nick Rogers
SCORE: 2/10
Comments: Not sure if this is supposed to be scary or not. Some horrible
intro text. Non-implemented instructions. Non-implemented objects. Uninspiriing
writing. Not my cuppa. I didn't finish. I loaded it up in the generator to find
out what you might actually have to do. There seems to be a drug-induced dream
sequence, which again is not my cuppa. I don't like trying to play a character
who is forced to do things I wouldn't do without any reason.
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