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 Horrors great and small., December 16, 2012Ecdysis is one of the English language entries making up the HP Lovecraft Commonplace Book project of 2007, and in spite of its brevity – or maybe because of its brevity in league with its quality – it's probably the best of them. It is based on the following jotting from Lovecraft's book, which I wouldn't actually read if you want to approach the game in a pure state: (Spoiler - click to show)Idea #221: “Insects or other entities from space attack and penetrate a man’s head and cause him to remember alien and exotic things–possible displacement of personality.” Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Evidence as to Man's Place. . ., July 20, 2010by joncgoodwin If you look up "ecdysis" in the OED, which I hope that most people would, you may notice the following illustrative quotation from Thomas Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature: "A skin of some dimension was cast [by ‘the human larva’] in the 16th century..a new ecdysis seems imminent." Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (3) - Add comment
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One-trick-pony with a very good trick, May 24, 2010Ecdysis is underimplemented, extremely short and linear, heavy on directing the player and very limited in scope. However, it makes up for all of its shortcomings by being a very disturbing small piece of IF - even more disturbing than Lovecraft's average work. Not for the squeamish. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Spartan and Under-implemented, August 8, 2009by AmberShards (The Gothic South) I'm wondering what game the other folks reviewed, because the version of Ecdysis available at the download link to the right and up a bit is spartan and under-implemented. I have no problem with games occasionally yielding up gems of purple prose, but this game implements so few objects that virtually everything is purple prose. That's frustrating and especially so when you're trying to avoid the main ending. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Very brief, but effective, June 27, 2008by Emily Short Ecdysis is a compact bit of horror. Summarizing the plot too much would only ruin it, but it's worth knowing that this is one of several games based on snippets from H. P. Lovecraft's "Commonplace Book", and that the premise is a weird and disturbing one. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Robbed of the "Best In Show" award, March 14, 2008A shot of pure Lovecraftian horror. Unlike the disappointing Dead Cities, this entry in the Commonplace Book Project maintains the creeping dread perfectly from beginning to end. No jarring implementation issues or intrusive default parser responses, no aimless undirected wandering, Ecdysis is short, sharp, and perfectly formed. There are multiple endings, all suitably Lovecraftian. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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