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Showing All | Show by Page - Max Fog, March 21, 2024 - Beable, February 29, 2024 - KathB (Toronto, Ontario), January 9, 2024 - wisprabbit (Sheffield, UK), September 19, 2023 Dostoevskian teenage passivity simulator?, August 9, 2023 by thevole Have always admired this coming of age IF for its cheeky and insightful depiction not just of passivity but nostalgia. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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| Direct link | Add a comment >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction Playing this character is an exercise in frustration. Every command you enter that might stand up to a bully, or leave a bad situation, or just let the PC take charge of his life in any way is wistfully brushed aside with a message like "Yeah, that'd be great, wouldn't it? But I'll never do it." Annoying, yes, but it's also the very soul of the character, and the very point of the game. In a sense, Rameses turns you into Alex's real self, struggling to get out and be heard, struggling to make a difference, only to be smacked down by fear, insecurity, and sometimes outright paranoia. In his climactic speech, the PC voices the exact torment that the player feels at every prompt -- it's an agonizing experience, and that's the point.
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Teenage Social Anxiety: The Un-Interactive Fiction, February 13, 2022by Cody Gaisser (Florence, Alabama, United States of America, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Known Universe, ???) Rameses is a semi-interactive short story about a shy, insecure teenage boarding school student with too much social anxiety to act on his impulses. Surrounded by jerks and pushovers (and certainly a bit of both himself), the protagonist struggles to navigate awkward situations like bullying and dates with girls. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A young man struggles with his identity and with self-loathing, February 3, 2016by MathBrush Rameses is like 'Ulysses' by Joyce; a well-known classic that is uncomfortable at times and neither of which I can really recommend as enjoyable. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Not bad...but could have been more..., August 19, 2010I am a bit disappointed that this game didn't allow you to do more...I would have loved to have known what would have happened if the player was allowed to combat the bullys. A lot of insecurities going on that frustrated me. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A psychological study in constraint, April 28, 2008by Jimmy Maher (Oslo, Norway) Rameses is a day in the life of a disaffected, alienated teenager at an Irish boarding school. Appropriately enough given its protagonist, it's a study in constraint. As you pass through a series of increasingly squirm-inducing scenes, you the player will try again and again to break Rameses out of the rut his life has become, only to have the game -- or, rather, Rameses himself -- refuse your requests with a variety of lame excuses. The game thus manages the neat trick of using its facade of interactivity to make its point -- said point being Rameses's refusal to recognize the control he has over his own life. The game is as railroaded as they come, but the mechanics serve the theme of the game. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Well-executed, just not my thing, November 16, 2007This isn't really a game, and as the author says in the ABOUT, it isn't really a story either: "All I can call it is a Thing." There is very little interactivity; your agency basically consists of what order to look at things in, and your conversational choices make pretty much no difference to the story. There are reasons for this, particularly as regards the conversations, but I did find it a bit frustrating sometimes, as if I was being made to type meaningless strings of characters before being rewarded with the next section of story. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Sami Preuninger (New York City), November 13, 2007 - protobob, November 8, 2007 - Nusco (Bologna, Italy), October 31, 2007 - Steve Evans (Hobart, Tasmania), October 28, 2007 - Emily Short, October 23, 2007 Baf's GuideYou're an unhappy teenager in an unpleasant Irish boarding school, remembering your happier younger days and putting up with the present as best you can. It's not very interactive, but it's an noninteractivity that serves the purposes of the story--the central character doesn't have the courage to speak honestly with others, so he hardly speaks at all, and the frustration the player feels mirrors the PC's frustrations. There are no puzzles, and the game essentially progresses whatever you do, but as a story and a characterization, it works extremely well. -- Duncan Stevens
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