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A classic of Story IF, July 1, 2018This was my favourite game of IFComp 2004, and I always felt that "it wuz robbed" with its (admittedly pretty creditable) 2nd place: it had the most 9s and 10s of any of the games, by some distance, but also divided opinion. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Beautiful story, much left ambiguous, March 16, 2016by Something Moving Under The Bed Related reviews: poignant, surreal, mystery, love, aging, symbolism I loved it - it develops into something not at all what you'd expect from the beginning, becoming a beautifully poignant tale with great writing- it gets a bit flabby in the middle (Spoiler - click to show)around the maze section as the story doesn't really develop there, and some might not even realise how far it goes, with some of the early possible endings. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Long, trippy journey through a surreal landscape, February 3, 2016Blue Chairs is (literally) trippy. After an interesting transaction at a college party, you take a surreal journey through this world and variants of it. Something like an adaptation of Dante's Inferno by James Joyce. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Featured on Radio K #6, January 17, 2016by Adam Cadre (Albany, California) Katherine Morayati and I discuss Blue Chairs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AavlyjzrSM#t=18s Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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One heck of a Ride!, December 31, 2014by Chai Hai (Kansas City KS) I enjoyed this immensely. Several different settings, and a nice plot too. A lot of thought was put into this, it's extremely well written. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Mysterious green liquids, May 6, 2011by Aintelligence (Canada) Don't do drugs. I think that just about sums up this whole piece. Of course the moral could be don't step inside freezers if you stop at a gas station, or for that matter it could be promoting the game Carcassonne. Yes, it was that type of game; the type where I ask myself what the heck i'm doing inside playing this game. I can't really see what the charm really is with it. A guy does drugs, goes slightly delusional, and tries to get to his friend. There that's the main storyline. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (1) - Add comment
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12 people found the following review helpful:
Extremely overrated, June 5, 2010Average geek takes drugs and dreams his way through a confusing game. Pretentious, condescending tone, as if the author is trying to teach you something very profound. The competent implementation and writing is not enough to make this game less irritating. I have to make use of the standard disclaimer here: although I didn't like it (and arguably I didn't get it), most players consider Blue Chairs a modern classic, and this game got close to winning the 2004 IF Comp. So it's a game that deserves to played. At the very worst, you'll be as disappointed as I was.Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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The Donnie Darko of interactive fiction, December 17, 2009by Andreas Teufel (Poland) Blue Chairs is the Donnie Darko of interactive fiction. In other words pretentious meaningless crap! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (4) - Add comment
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Technically great, full of symbolistic smugness, December 28, 2008by kba (berlin) I played Blue Chairs because I looked specifically for games with a surreal setting and surreal is what I got. The opening scene is really great, both technically and as a plot device, and it seems like the start of some psychedelic fun. But it isn't really psychedelic, it felt more like the stoned ramblings of a preachy zen-buddhist who read too much wikipedia on Freudian pychoanalysis. Then again, I don't know what kind of drug I, the player that is, is on. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Surrealism at its best, June 18, 2008by probabilityZero (Folsom, CA) From the moment I saw the title page, I was hooked. I've played through this game numerous times, and I've yet to tire of it. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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