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Showing All | Show by Page - witchcock (Gainesville, FL), February 26, 2024 - gattociao, August 23, 2023 - querent, June 4, 2023 - Kinetic Mouse Car, August 3, 2022 >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction Assuming that "Jason Devlin" isn't a pseudonym for an experienced author, we have a very satisfactory debut on our hands. Sting Of The Wasp brings one of the year's nastier PCs in the person of wealthy socialite Julia Hawthorne. In the grand tradition of Primo Varicella, Julia is a vain, preening snob who looks with utter disdain at almost everything around her, including the country club in which the game is set... SOTW is one of those games that let you gleefully and maliciously wreak havoc on a wide variety of places and characters, all in the service of advancing a thoroughly rotten character. As I said, the most prominent example of this sort of game is Varicella, but this game is Varicella played purely for laughs -- very few darker undertones burden the spree of unrestrained villainy.
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Wickedly fun, December 1, 2021(This is a repost of a review I wrote on the IF newsgroups right after the 2004 Comp) Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Mid-to-long parser game about a woman in a country club saving face, February 3, 2016by MathBrush This game has some strong sexual content early on, which forms the theme of the rest of the game. You are a WASP (a White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant) who is cheating on their husband in the country club closet, and someone photographs you. You need to keep it secret to save your marriage. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Postmodern Vanity Fair, May 24, 2013by kala (Finland) It is not too often that one encounters IF with cultivated social criticism. Sting of the Wasp can be considered such case, wrapped in a ludic shell of surprising success. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Darkly entertaining, December 30, 2007by Emily Short The puzzles in Sting of the Wasp vary in fairness, and none of the major characters are really sympathetic: this is dark comedy, with a scheming, cheating social climber as its protagonist. For general awfulness she falls somewhere between Varicella and the Bastard Operator from Hell. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Tom Hudson (Durham, North Carolina), December 10, 2007 3 of
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Plays nice, October 31, 2007Well-written social satire with Gourmet-style "lateral thinking" puzzles. The cheesy opening scene gives way to a very solid, enjoyable game. Intelligent writing, strong characters. The humour is a bit hit-and-miss. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Stephen Bond (Leuven, Belgium), October 26, 2007 - Quintin Stone (NC), October 23, 2007
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