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About the Story"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a very frightening way. Various bits of magical fantasy are included in a basically real-world setting. Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: 2.0.03 License: Freeware Development System: TADS 3 Forgiveness Rating: Tough IFID: 57F1E6C7-1BA4-8501-F67F-B259F6556C8B TUID: 7t22wbllftv7nuiw Remake of Last Resort, by Jim Aikin |
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I'm torn on whether to recommend this game. On the one hand, it has a perfectly serviceable story and really interesting characters. I feel I must defend it more vigorously because there is a serious dearth of games (in any medium) which put as much effort into exploring character motivation as they do exploring dungeons and the finer points of headshots. But pretentious illusions aside, these are literary challenges in which we find our enjoyment, and the challenge must match but not distract from their literariness. I'm not sure Lydia's Heart meets that standard. The author's wish for a large, serious story may have been fulfilled... but it sacrifices enjoyable gameplay in the bargain. (by Nate Dovel)
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v.9: 21-Dec-2017 08:13 -
David Welbourn
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v.6: 28-Dec-2012 06:26 - Edward Lacey Changed cross-references | |
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v.1: 16-Mar-2008 13:58 - Jim Aikin
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