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No Time To Squeal

by Mike Sousa profile and Robb Sherwin profile

Slice of life, Surreal
2001

Web Site

About the Story

"He thought he saw a pantomime
That queried his own deal:
He looked again, and found it was
A ticket to a meal.
He thought he saw infanticide
Per chance to make it real.
'I have but one regret,' he said:
'There is no time to squeal!'"
[--blurb from Competition Aught-One]


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Off-Site Reviews

SPAG
There is a lot of character-establishing text at the start, maybe too much, but it was effective in drawing me into the role. [...] After spending all that time in one character, suddenly I'm wrenched out and thrust into a new one, and I have to go through the whole process of getting to know them again. And that just seems too tiring.
-- Stephen Bond
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>INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction

[I]t was engaging stuff, and was peppered with one or two really clever puzzles. The overall design was solid, save for the one flaw [discussed in the review with a spoiler warning], but that flaw was so glaring, I really can't ignore it. No Time To Squeal demonstrates that great things can happen when two IF authors combine their strengths, but unfortunately, it also shows that even teams still have their weaknesses.
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v.1: 16-Oct-2007 01:50 - IFDB
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