Ballyhoo

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- kala (Finland), May 26, 2012

- Nav (Bristol, UK), November 25, 2011

- André St-Aubin (Laval, Québec), May 31, 2011

- Rotonoto (Albuquerque, New Mexico), May 16, 2011

- JohnW (Brno, Czech Republic), March 16, 2011

- Walter Sandsquish, February 2, 2011

- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), May 23, 2010

- qwrrty (Carlisle, Massachusetts), February 10, 2009

- albtraum, February 8, 2009

- Miron (Berlin, Germany), December 23, 2008

- Linnau (Tel-Aviv, Israel), October 31, 2008

- burtcolk, September 3, 2008

- Nathaniel Kirby (Pennsylvania), July 7, 2008

I played Ballyhoo with a friend of mine, and it was a great way to experience it. I'm sort of a fan of the circus, and I think this game did the atmosphere very well, despite the typical Infocom in-jokes. The game takes great pains to time events so you never miss anything, which has some mimesis-crushing side effects. The puzzles were not ridiculously hard, though I think we used hints once or twice. There a brilliant dream sequence marred by maddeningly tedious puzzles. We had a lot of fun with it, even while we cursed the puzzles that just don't make sense.

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