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Easter Egg Hunt Reviews
Author: Ian Thomson
Date: 2010
ADRIFT 4.0
Reviewed by Lumin
At first glance, this game written by a newbie plays exactly like a game written
by a newbie, with all the ’my first gaem’ mistakes I’ve seen time and time again
when these things pop up on the adventures page. From a gameplay perspective the
biggest problem of course were that the descriptions and puzzles were all but
non-existent, something that will usually immediately make me quit with the
thought that I’d be putting more effort into playing the game than the author
did into writing it. But since this was a comp entry I pressed on, and
discovered even worse problems with the plot, which apparently started out as an
attempt at a classic Christmas folkstory I’ve heard a few versions of, but then
devolved pretty much immediately into some of the clumsiest sledgehammer
preaching I’ve ever seen, so much that I can’t help but wonder whether the
author was for real or not. (I became even more confused a few minutes ago when
I looked them up and saw that they’d written ’Igor’ as well, a flawed but still
pretty decent game.)
So while I’m not wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings, the only positive thing I
can really find to say about this one is in noting the nice sound effects that
were added for different rooms, though that kind of attention to a welcome but
unnecessary detail while the much more important ’text’ part of the text game
was all but ignored is somewhat baffling in itself. In the end, my advice to the
author is the same as it always is in these situations: it’s best to play a few
games before you attempt to make one of your own, just like a wannabe novelist
needs to do plenty of reading before they’re comfortable with writing. Go to
Baf’s Guide, pick out some good IF and some bad IF, get a sense of what works
and what doesn’t. (And if you’re serious about the Christian fiction thing, try
Eric Eve’s All Hope Abandon and Paul Panks’ Jesus of Nazareth...see if you can
tell the difference. :-p )
Reviewed by Deboriole
I thought the description of this game looked pretty interesting - I mistook the
title to mean a pagan treasure hunt through the forest. Upon playing I quickly
realized that Easter Egg Hunt is a literal, Christian-themed hunt for eggs --
complete with a crucifix and a crown of thorns. There are a few characters in
the game, but you do not have to persuade them to trade items with you. A simple
"get object" will suffice and you can take (or give) all game items to any
character. I admit I did not play the entire game because I managed to find more
than half of the eggs simply sitting on the ground. It was not as much of a
"hunt" as it was a collection process.
I read the walkthrough after I quit playing, and there is more depth to the game
than I found, but I am still not tempted to go back and finish.
Reviewed by By Duncan_Bowsman
And then there's the Easter Egg Hunt, which fell completely flat for me. The
game is apparently attempting to preach Christianity or something (a turn-off
for me), and does it in a sledgehammer kind of way that is neither persuasive,
nor does it ever fully eclipse into parody. I kept expecting maybe there would
be some comedic twist at the end, but as I played on I realised I couldn't bear
to read however much more was left in order to find out.
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