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Private Teacher Reviews
Author:
Vachon
Date: 2004
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 Purple Dragon
General Information (on Vachon’s games)
To save myself some time I’m just going to write this once and add it to all my
reviews of
Vachon’s games (unless of course I find one it doesn’t apply to).
Well, my mouth got me into trouble again when I posted on one of the boards that
I would be willing to play and review all of Vachon’s games. I imagine
that I was drunk at the time but whatever the reason, I’m here to make good on
my promise so that there is a written review of the games for anyone
contemplating playing any of them. My suggestion if you are thinking about
loading one up is don’t. However, if you must then please realize that
these games represent (by nearly unanimous opinion) the worst that AIF has to
offer. You have been warned.
I’m not really sure what Vachon’s native tongue is but suffice it to say that he
has only a passing familiarity with the English language. As a result,
just about the only responses you get that contain no spelling or grammar
mistakes are the default messages supplied by Adrift. I’ve never before
been so glad to learn that there is evidently no need for language like that (at
least it was a complete sentence).
The spelling and grammatical errors range from merely annoying to nearly
incomprehensible.
Simply using a spell check of some kind would have at least cut down on some of
these but
evidently such a thing did not exist when he was writing his games.
Playing through his games gives me a bit of a headache because it actually reads
almost like a foreign language that I have to translate as I go along to make
sense of what is happening.
If all that is not enough to send you running the other way then please read on.
Basic Story
You are not the best student in school to say the least. One day your
teacher calls you into her office after school. You don’t know what you
were expecting but it wasn’t this.
Overall Thoughts
This is actually not a terrible game (comparatively speaking). The fact
that it is very short with only one character and two locations helps to keep
the bugs down and it even has a plot (sort of). Let me put it this way, it
makes sense within the bounds of an AIF game, which is something that most of
his games cannot claim.
Puzzles/Game Play
No puzzles here as this is “A Night With” type game. One character and
sex, that’s it. But that’s ok.
Sex
The author breaks out of his usual linear trend and allows you to do the
commands in pretty much whatever order you want. It is clear that he still
had in mind the order in which you ‘should’ do them since the text sometimes
makes reverences to things that haven’t happened yet or conversely, assumes
something hasn’t happened when it has. Still, it’s a step in the right
direction and although the sex is still a little bland, it at least makes sense
within the construct of the game.
Technical
There are very few bugs here and the ones I did find were mostly minor. A
big part of the reason is that, as I mentioned above, this is a very short,
simple game but it was still refreshing to see. The game has a layered
clothing system and it actually works. This is a huge step up for him and
shows that at what would be close to the end of his AIF ‘career’ he was making
at least some attempt to improve.
Final Thoughts
The only really bad thing about this game is the one that inflicts all of his
others, the language. Spelling and grammar errors, combined with sentence
structures that clearly show that English is not his native language, turn what
could have been a decent (if short and simple) game into another poor one.
If you could somehow ignore the language problems you would find a good idea for
a game with fairly good (if a bit silly at times) text and sexual descriptions.
It wouldn’t blow your mind, but you also wouldn’t dismiss it immediately as
crap. It is too bad that, as I’ve said before, it is simply not possible
to ignore the language and too bad that he didn’t see fit to work more or seek
help on this single most important aspect of any game. After all, if you
have to struggle just to tell what the text says, you’re not going to get much
enjoyment out of the game.
Rating: D+
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