Ok so I got this game from the Indie Nation post off Destructoid. Anthony Burch usually puts up some good games on there, and I’ve actually downloaded and enjoyed most of the games he mentions.

This one, however, was a text-based game… and if there’s one thing I could NEVER get in to it’s text based games. Even like Kings Quest or w/e back in the day… I could never rock those games.. they were just too boring.. and I hated having to type when I wanted to search for stuff. BUT something told me to try this game.. at least give it a shot… because I wanted to read the rest of the article and he insists that you play the game first. I thought “what the hell it will probably only take 5 minutes or so..” So I started playing the game… and realized it would take much longer… at first I hated it because it’s supposedly really easy.. but I kept getting stuck in spots when I knew what to do, I just wasn’t typing the right thing.

Now that I’ve finished it… I actually feel like I loved it.. and I am playing back through it again on the downloaded version (the online one gave me some troubles with the text colors.. dunno if it was FF or what..) all at once to make sure I pick up the details that I missed.

Basically I have pretty mixed feelings about it, because sometimes I think “hey that was REALLY good” and but then there are parts that make me think “how was 50% of this game necessary?”

Just thought I’d post about it here to see if any of you play it.. and maybe we can discuss it Maybe someone who enjoys text based games more than me can help me understand some of the things I missed :D

Article on Dtoid
Internet version
Downloadable version here

I will definitely try this out.  Are there any graphics at all?  I’ve enjoyed a few games that make you type stuff out, but they always had graphics, I’ve never played a purely text based game.

there are no graphics. there are a few parts where it will have likea black background.. and then in the middle there’s a big red block.. but it’s basically a bunch of red “spaces"… so it’s a graphic… but.. it’s a text graphic haha

other than those few spots… no.. purely text based

i just finished the second play-through (this time all at once instead of span over 2 days) and there were a few things i picked up that i didn’t get last time… also some of the choices you make will affect the things you read… but none of it will affect the overall story… lemme know when you finish it so we can go spoilers on this shit haha