Manlandia

by Rob Chateau

Utopian
2016

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A gender-swapped static story implemented in Twine, May 10, 2017

(Warning: This review might contain spoilers. Click to show the full review.)There's not much to say about this game; it's just an old short story/novella, with all the genders swapped, and implemented in big linear chunks in Twine.

Why not just read the original book? Not much to see here.

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- Pegbiter (Malmö, Sweden), February 22, 2017

- E.K., December 4, 2016

- Robin Johnson (Edinburgh, Scotland), November 24, 2016

- Doug Orleans (Somerville, MA, USA), November 24, 2016

- EJ, November 19, 2016

- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), November 18, 2016

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
A multi-stage rocket of disappointments, November 8, 2016

When I read the blurb, I thought this was going to be either a screed by some red-pill-popping MRA or else something in the vein of Ethan of Athos.

When I read the story, I was disappointed that it wasn't remotely 'interactive fiction' unless we're including multi-part blog posts and ebooks in that now. It's just a story that you click to advance the pages. But as a story, I really liked it. It did a fantastic job capturing the voice of a early 20th-C adventure novel. Really authentic sounding!

When I found out that the reason it sounded like an adventure story from a century ago is that it was plagiarized in its entirely from an actual adventure story from a century ago, I was disappointed again. Disappointed because someone took someone else's work, Rule 63'ed it, and released it under their own name, and disappointed because a pitch-perfect '1916 adventure voice' is a lot less impressive coming from an actual 1916ian.

In short, it was...disappointing.

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