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Language: English (en)
Current Version: Unknown License: Freeware Development System: Inform 6 Baf's Guide ID: 1328 IFID: ZCODE-1-001218-DDAF TUID: c6x835i6o9zqfc59 |
Awards
Nominee, Best Individual NPC - 2000 XYZZY Awards
Editorial Reviews
Baf's Guide
-- Emily Short
SPAG
This is possibly the strangest piece of IF I've ever encountered...
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Suspended's cynical little brother, January 11, 2010by Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, MN)
Completely by accident, I played Fail-Safe in the same week that I played the Infocom classic Suspended. Fail-Safe is essentially Suspended's more cynical little brother. In both games, the PC is immobile and completely dependent on NPCs for sensory input, movement, and manipulating objects. Both are also set in science-fiction worlds where a massive calamity has just occurred, and the PC has to walk the NPCs through repairs that they have trouble describing and can only dimly understand. Fail-Safe is very short, and as mentioned elsewhere, does not permit saves or restores, which is less painful than it might sound. Once you have figured out the basic plan of the game, you can quickly get back to the part where the crucial decisions are made (and where the game's black humor really shows itself). You'll definitely want to replay a few times to make sure you get all the endings. At one point, there's an unfortunate guess-the-verb problem, but for the most part Fail-Safe is entertaining, well-written, and definitely worth playing.
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Perfect IF, March 26, 2008What a great game. While I can imagine a straight fiction based on the same concept, this is a perfect example of a story that cries out to be interactive. The only reason it misses out on five stars in my book is that the endgame becomes slightly repetitious. However the game as a piece, as a whole, is IF born to be IF. Highly recommended.
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