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10 people found the following review helpful:
Fragments from an explosion, November 11, 2008"Shrapnel," lives up to its name quite beautifully. This game could not have had any other name. Here is another fine example of a game that stretches traditional IF to its boundaries. Things aren't always as they appear.
There were no instances of "guess-the-verb," nor any traditional puzzles. There are no puzzles in the traditional sense. For the most part, the player/character wanders through the game as an observer (in a very literal sense) until the climax is reached.
And that is why I could not give this game a higher rating. As enjoyable as it was, this game really flowed on rails, taking the player from one scene to the next smoothly and easily with minimal interaction.
All in all, this brief game is a pleasure to play, and was executed skillfully. It would perhaps be a good game for newcomers to IF to understand what the medium has to offer.
- Linnau (Tel-Aviv, Israel), October 31, 2008
- AardvarkSoup (IJmuiden), September 25, 2008
- Maze (Rome, Italy), September 7, 2008
- burtcolk, September 3, 2008
- Wesley (Iowa City, Iowa), September 1, 2008
- Beekeeper, July 28, 2008
- Anders Hellerup Madsen (Copenhagen, Denmark), July 21, 2008
- Otto (France), June 9, 2008
- paperclypse (Portland, OR), April 24, 2008
- Hans Möller (Sweden), April 5, 2008
- brattish (Canada), April 3, 2008
- bolucpap, March 19, 2008
- Leland Paul (Swarthmore, PA), March 15, 2008
- Cheryl L (Australia), March 11, 2008
- jfpbookworm (Hamburg, New York), February 25, 2008
- Interference (Oxford, England), February 14, 2008
- Matt Kimmel (Cambridge, MA), January 23, 2008
- Michel Nizette (Brussels, Belgium), January 18, 2008
- incandenza (carrboro, north carolina), January 17, 2008
- tfbk, January 10, 2008
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Stunning, January 2, 2008Interactive fiction players who have gone underground Infocom's "Zork I" are sure to find both an odd familiarity and a terrifying element of the unknown in this story, and others will find the story just as intriguing. Masterfully developed and deeply haunting, "shrapnel" weaves elements of history and science fiction into an unforgettable though short piece.
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