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A somewhat faulty pirate adventure á la Scott Adams, June 26, 2019Scott Adams wrote minimalistic games to run on small computers. They’re free, and I recommend playing them. They use two word parsers, scanty descriptions, and so on. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Decent Pirate Theme, November 27, 2010R is made using the format of the old Scott Adams games. These games were before my time, so any nostalgia factor was lost on me. The only thing I got out of the format was being annoyed at how things were set up and missing various conventions that I’m used to. For example, you can move by just typing a compass direction, but there are certain directions that are listed as things that are in a location, like “Trapdoor”, “Path”, etc.) that you can only go to by typing “go [whatever]”. I was stuck fairly early in the game until I consulted the walkthrough to find out that I had to type “go trapdoor” to go back down into the hold of the ship (I had gotten up to the decks initially by typing “climb ladder”). Once I figured that out, it wasn’t a big deal. The other thing I had to consult the walkthrough for was for some guess-the-verb stuff. (Spoiler - click to show)I knew I wanted to distract the sharks with the meat, but typing “drop meat” just dropped it on the ground without doing one of two things I might have expected in a modern game: just going ahead and throwing it in the water or giving you some kind of response to clue the correct command. (The correct command, it turns out, is “feed sharks”.) Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), November 16, 2010 - Mark Jones (Los Angeles, California), November 16, 2010 - Karl Ove Hufthammer (Bergen, Norway), November 2, 2010 - Pseudo_Intellectual (Vancouver, Canada), October 4, 2010
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