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Author: The Lonely Wolf
Date: 2003
ADRIFT 3.9
What does AIF stand for? Adult Interactive Fiction. If you likely to be offended by games with sexual content, you are advised not to open these files.
Reviewed by A. Bomire
Basic Plot
You are home alone with (presumably) your girlfriend Faith, and decide to have
some sex with her. The exact relationship is never defined; Faith could just as
easily be your wife, your friend, your roommate, or any other female companion.
Overall Thoughts
As a member of the AIF newsletter staff, and also for my own enjoyment, I find
myself playing every game that is released in the AIF genre - no matter how
large or small, how good or bad. After all, you don't know how good or bad a
game will be until you play it - do you? (Well, unless you read one of these
reviews, that is.) Given that, I was very surprised when I ran across this game
as I had absolutely no recollection of ever playing it, or even it being
released. I also didn't recall any discussion regarding the game either. So, I
couldn't resist downloading and playing it.
This game is the first released by Lonely Wolf, and I think the last. It appears
to be a test game he released, basically to get his feet wet in the AIF genre.
The game is extremely small, only three rooms with one NPC. In fact, it could
easily qualify for the mini-comp. The game may not have been a test game in
fact, but it certainly plays like one. As you'll see later, commands aren't
fully implemented, the text hasn't been spell and grammar checked, and the game
isn't really completed.
Puzzles/Game play
Puzzles? Game play? If you're looking for those, look someplace else. The game
starts out with you in a hallway. A hallway described, by the way, as "just a
simple hallway". That brief description is typical of the kind of thing you'll
see throughout the game. There are only three rooms, and all of them have this
terse, almost non-existent descriptive text associated with them. In fact, this
paragraph has more words in it than the entire descriptive text for every object
in the game combined. This isn't bad in and of itself, but it isn't good either.
There are no puzzles. You simply find Faith (who awaits you in the bedroom), and
start having sex with her. There is a very minor puzzle in that you don't score
points for some actions unless you have completed other actions first - but
those actions are still allowed. I wouldn't really count this as a puzzle.
Sex
Well, read my comments above regarding the descriptive text for the rooms and
objects in the game, and apply it to the sexual interaction. Well, this isn't
actually fair - the author does go into much greater detail in describing the
sex, relatively speaking. But going from using five or six words to describe
something to describing it using ten to twenty words isn't that much of an
improvement.
Technical
The game starts out with a paragraph informing you that you can have sex with
Faith in multiple locations by telling her to follow you around. When I
attempted to use the "Faith follow" command as instructed, I am informed that
ADRIFT doesn't recognize this command. (Through the highly instructive "what
shmuck" response, with which the author has replaced the usual ADRIFT response
for unacceptable commands.) This is typical of the game, with incomplete or
inaccurate commands. What is more annoying is the almost complete lack of
capitalization and punctuation in the text. This sort of thing just drives me up
the wall.
Final Thoughts
I would have dismissed this game as an obvious test version released as a "beta"
(as some authors used to do before we became more organized in our beta-testing
process) if it weren't for the fact that the README included with the game
specifically states that this is the second release of the game, released as an
update to the first version. As such, I have to assume that the author released
the first version and got back a list of problems and errors, and then released
this version with those fixes in place.
In my opinion, this game is really a test and should never have been released as
a full "game" at all.
Rating: F
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