A Dream Come True Reviews
Author: Purple Dragon
Date: 2006
ADRIFT 3.9

Reviewed by Anonymous

Overview: Returning from a road performance of your high school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, your tour bus breaks down. You’ve been separated from your girlfriend for the whole trip by an over-zealous chaperone, and now you have one last chance to hook up with her. 

What Works: This is a very solid entry to the comp. It’s idea and execution of that idea are very competently done. The use of Shakespeare makes it seem very literate while at the same time realistic. After all, what teenage Shakespearean actor hasn’t tried to improvise his own Shakespeare? Also, you really feel for the PC and his girl. The frustration they feel at being chaperoned is extremely palpable and the release they achieve during the sex scene is welcome and powerful. I liked the environments in the game and the main characters came across as more real than those in most AIF. 

What doesn’t: The game feels very crowded. I guess that technically it conforms to the mini- comp NPC limit rule, but I think the bus driver, the chaperone and the girlfriend’s roommate feel enough like non-player characters - even if in the guts of the game’s coding they aren’t - that the game should have been disqualified or revised to meet the limit. Perhaps either the chaperone or the bus driver could have been the NPC and then the roommates could have been eliminated or minimized. Aside from this, my other complaint would be the length of the Shakespearean interlude. These kids have pretty damn good restraint to be able to go through all those speeches (some of which are neither Bottom’s nor Titania’s) without jumping one another’s bones. 

Concept/Writing: 4th 
Characters: 2nd 
Technical: 3rd 
Hotness: 3rd 
Enjoyment: 3rd 
Hotness: 1st Enjoyment: 1st 

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