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A mid-length retelling of Beauty and the Beast with musical magic, January 17, 2024by MathBrush This mid-length game is a story-focused Zorkian type game, where you explore the Beast's castle, trying to understand his history and take action. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Great for beginners, smooth, and adaptive, April 1, 2023 by Cygnus (Australia) Bronze is an interactive fiction following a similar story of beauty and the beast, but wildly different. With mechanics and fantastical backstory, this game is world-built in the best ways. It’s got an expansive yet still navigable structure, with in-built hints (that is quite literally the best thing an IF can have). Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Well-designed mechanics, March 2, 2023I felt that being able to find something and the directions on the status bar made the gameplay a lot more enjoyable and much less frustrating, given the vast number of rooms to explore. These two features should be standard practice for complex or multi-room IF games. One of most well-designed IF games I’ve played to date and I’m glad to have stumbled upon this. Interesting storyline as well! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Great for beginners... or those who want a compelling, quick game, December 1, 2022 by kbadly I really enjoyed the ease of this game-- not necessarily easy to solve, but easy to play casually. I did not need to make maps or take notes-- everything is there for you if you just "think" about it or "look up" in various references. The story is compelling as well. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Incredible atmosphere and storytelling, December 5, 2020by Wynter (London, UK) I had played and enjoyed text adventure games before *Bronze*, but this was the first that I truly loved. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Another home run from Emily Short, October 5, 2020by bradleyswissman (Virginia, US) Emily Short does more than justice to the medium of interactive fiction and lives up to her reputation as one of the best IF authors in this relatively short IF. In Bronze, Emily takes a fairytale well-known to western audiences and refines it, building up layers and layers of storytelling, worldbuilding, and fantasy. We are all familiar with the story of Beauty and the Beast, but Short spurns the Disney retelling and takes us down darker, more fanciful paths. Short has set up this story as part map, part puzzle - objects that you interact with unlock different parts of the map and progress the quest, which is (Spoiler - click to show)to solve the mystery of the Beast and his enchanted servants. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Points for best NPC: The Castle, April 30, 2020In this retelling of the classic, wellknown fairy-tale, you play Beauty. However, you (the player) are not Beauty. Through memories triggered by various rooms, objects, pieces of furniture, it's clear that she has lived a life of her own, in this castle with its Lord, and outside it in her village. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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IF to remember, February 25, 2020by JuiceCarver I'll remember this game for a long time. An enchanting twist to the well-known story that leaves you reminiscing about the couple when you finish. Full of fun puzzles and friendly to newbies. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Perfect Introduction To IF, March 18, 2017by RottenSnail Related reviews: fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast, based on, small map, puzzles, hints, easy, introductory, beginner, multiple endings, traditional, fantasy In my opinion, this game is perfect. Based on my limited experience with IF, I'd say this game definitely succeeds at introducing beginners to the "traditional" exploration and puzzle IF genre. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A great story for beginners, February 5, 2017by jkibbe Bronze is a great starting place for those getting into IF. It has a generous hint system and puzzles that are just the right difficulty (for me, anyway!). Though it has some parallels to Beauty and the Beast, it is it's own story and not romantic, if that's a concern. I would recommend printing a map or drawing a map to keep track of all of the locations. I didn't visit all of the possible rooms (the ones unlabeled on the PDF map), so I assume there is an alternate, perhaps more favorable, path. Next, I plan on having my middle school students work through this story as an intro to IF! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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