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Dangerous games, November 2, 2015by CMG (NYC) This review is for the entire Robyn Saga, which is told in four parts. They were uploaded to IFDB but then deleted, and are currently available on the ifarchive under "unprocessed." They're meant to be played in the following order: The Elevator, The Box, The Diary, The Prism. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next theworldisastage, March 10, 2022 - Reply Like a previous comment, I've been curious about this series for years but could not access it in any form. And coming back to this review I do wonder about the nature of "transgressive" and boundaries, mentioned here. If Dennis Cooper can create similar media to this and then incorporate it into various forms - a blogged GIF novel, a play, movie, novels, interactive fiction - then what exactly do we make of this series? Are they really as bad as is told in this review, or is it on the level of Cooper (and other literary authors) who write very, very "shocking" material but are hailed literary heroes due to the way they approach the material? For this reason I wish there was a chance to give this a go just to see how "transgressive" this really is. I respect your review but I'm rather skeptical because I consume transgressive fiction too. I'm not sure why there's an expectation to trust authors, as stated in this review. I never lend trust to authors, especially not of transgressive work. Really, it's a shocking genre. For all we know they could give us something like The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop or turn and spin and give us an interactive approach like Dennis Cooper's works, where he too writes of material that is "transgressive, pornographic, scatological" and all that you've listed - the only difference is that he's published by Random House, Penguin, and more. Should we have inherent trust of this author just because he's published by the big-wigs of publishing? This is why I find it questionable to label something like this dangerous when it has such a little reach and when we have no idea how "transgressive" it really is. I don't think we should trust anyone, really. I hope someday this can be played but until then, I'm still skeptical of this review. CMG, March 10, 2022 - Reply Well, frankly, yes, I would trust Random House and Penguin not to publish exploitative/abusive pornography. There's a screening process. With games like this, there is none. So the player has to risk confronting anything. I didn't want to take that risk, which is why I didn't finish playing. theworldisastage, March 11, 2022 - Reply I think that's fair and understandable. Thankfully, someone who has access to that kind of material likely wouldn't want to share it on a public site and face any kind of charges. So I presume the danger is minimal in this case and moreso just an experimental interactive game (even if it's made of twisted material). Siko, August 8, 2021 - Reply Your review caught my attention, but it looks like this game has been deleted from everywhere, even considering all your warnings, I'm still curious to play them. Doug Orleans, November 9, 2015 - Reply It looks like VociferousBird (the author?) has erased the name and author and all details from thie IFDB listing. I'm tempted to revert, but, hmm... CMG, November 9, 2015 - Reply Yes, they did erase everything after I posted my review, which makes me wonder what reaction they expected the games to receive. When you write something like this, you have to know you're entering dangerous territory. Doug Orleans, November 9, 2015 - Reply Given that the entry claims the game was written in 2001, maybe VociferousBird is not the author, but just regrets making the IFDB entry for it. Christina Nordlander, November 3, 2015 - Reply I'm wondering why you think a game with transgressive content has less of a boundary than a static work with similar content. Is it because the game requires your own (the player's) agency? CMG, November 3, 2015 - Reply When you're reading a book, you've just got words on a page. When you're seeing a movie, you expect sounds and images. But you don't know what you're getting into with a hypertext game. Anything could be behind a hyperlink. There's no boundary to what material might appear, and also no boundary to who might be creating this material. Christina Nordlander, November 3, 2015 - Reply I see, thank you. Fabien Vidal, November 2, 2015 - Reply Previous | << 1 >> | NextInterresting review. Apparently, even is those works are unpleasant to read they are far from empty and provoke something. So I guess it would deserve 2 stars rather than one. I haven't read them though, and probably won't... |