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Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: Release 2 License: Freeware Development System: TADS 2 Baf's Guide ID: 1237 IFID: TADS2-00F85A4A699502C77C066F998823165D TUID: gdy6gaia4nm66km2 |
IF-Review
On Common Ground
Stephen Granade's "Common Ground" is a short, friendly game, more character-piece and story than puzzle. By giving you the perspective of each of three protagonists in turn, it sketches in the relationships between members of a small family, showing you both sides of each point of conflict. — Emily Short
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Play This Thing!
Common Ground is about perceptions and misunderstandings: the player experiences a set of events from the perspective of three protagonists. Their respective ideas of what is going on (and why) dovetail together in sometimes-surprising ways, and the result is a story about communication and expectation in an ordinary family.
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SPAG
The point actually isn't to adapt a Rashomon-style trick to IF, wherein incompatible stories are told and the truth lies somewhere between them, if anywhere; figuring out the truth is less the objective here than understanding the characters and why they do what they do. The result is susceptible to a variety of interpretations, in a few respects--the player's sympathies may rest with one of the characters, or all, or none, depending on what he or she makes of the various exchanges. That aspect of Common Ground is particularly skillfully done, in fact: playing the various characters gives a more nuanced look at the situation than playing one character might, and an honest look at the story more than likely leaves the player neither canonizing nor demonizing any of the characters outright, which is as it should be.
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Brass Lantern
Reviews by David Glasser, Eric Mayer, Iain Merrick and Mark Musante.
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v.7: 24-Feb-2013 10:12 - Edward Lacey Changed external review links | |
v.6: 04-Oct-2009 16:16 - Eriorg Changed author | |
v.5: 29-Apr-2009 16:47 - Dave Chapeskie Changed download links | |
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v.2: 21-Oct-2007 12:01 - David Welbourn Changed cover art | |
v.1: 16-Oct-2007 01:48 - IFDB
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