Reviews by Oreolek
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Too frustrating, January 27, 2020Good writing and implementation, but the difficulty curve is harsh. It expects you to know the uncommon IF verbs to pass the tutorial. The built-in hint system skips over the important stuff. You'll have to examine things twice from different perspectives. Of course there are timed puzzles. I don't recommend this game.
A good punch of Weird with a long drag afterwards, November 26, 2019Bridget is a girl in a summer camp. She sees weird dreams. She sees weird things. It's weird.
Birdland is long and it constantly repeats itself. The dreams have the samey feel and by the third or the fourth they are boring. Between the "ah, so what's happening" and "okay, let's do something about it" moments there is a good chunk of just.. hanging around, I guess.
What's frustrating is lack of character details. I finished the game but I still don't know anything solid about the lead heroine. Most of the camp girls are flat or you don't see them enough because the game doesn't care. There are good characters but they are doomed to be the scenery.
It's a decent game, overall, for its background details and the punchy beginning. The ending's flat, though.
The "Kingdom of Grain" is an old (circa 1992) text strategy for ZX Spectrum. by THD group (text by Denis Filippov and Alexey Leontyev, graphics by Alexander Belousov.)
It was a gameplay rehash of ”Hammurabi” by David Ahl (BASIC).
There are also a lot of remakes for this game (all under the same name): 1999 PC version by Denis Filippov, 2011 INSTEAD remake by v.v.b. (based on 2006 remake ”Kingdom 3” by Alexey Parfyonov), and 2006 URQ remake.
Anyway, the game is this: you have a kingdom and your kingdom produces grain. You must manage your fields and finances so your kingdom won't starve or go bankrupt. It's rather brutal but very great and maybe you can get to year 100 in ten tries or less.
It's a good economic strategy but the story is thin and the text is very brief. Most remakes are open source, so - hey, maybe there will be a new version soon.
Didn't understand, January 24, 2016Did not understand one bit. You walk around, you type in "tomorrow", you walk around some more, maybe something happens. What's the point? It's very depressing.
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