Purple

Baf's Guide

Post-apocalyptic science fiction, with some nice moments but also a lot of implementation problems. Nuclear holocaust is imminent, but your brother Karl has devised a machine that will help you survive the blast; now, you're trying to survive in a rather unfamiliar landscape. There are lots of programming problems, particularly toward the end--it's easy to get nonsensical responses if you do things out of sequence--but there's also a good sense of atmosphere, and a few moments are genuinely chilling. The writing is sometimes effective and sometimes ungrammatical or unclear, but usually it's good enough not to get in the way. An uneven effort.

-- Duncan Stevens