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About the StoryThe search for a mysterious, mystical thorn bush brings you to a ruined abbey in a desolate part of the Fens.Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: 1 License: Freeware Development System: Inform 6 Baf's Guide ID: 2152 IFID: ZCODE-1-030701-18A0 TUID: b87eumakxhjmhcif |
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Note: this game was originally written in Adrift for the Davidw's Minicomp 2003, and later ported to Inform. I've only played the Inform version.
-- David Welbourn
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by Fra Enrico (Torino, Italy)
This is a short story more than a game: Thorn was originally a short tale by the writer Eric Mayer, who adapted it himself in interactive form. This is the main reason for which I like this game. I love when Interactive Fiction is, most of all, Fiction: good tale with good prose, and an interesting plot. I'm not into puzzle-fest games: if a thing I have to read has not a good writing, I don't read it. Thorn is a good thing to read. This particular story is one which needs the reader to push things onward every once in a while - like a rethorical isntrument: imagine a teacher reading a tale to his children, stopping sometimes asking "Are you kids with me? What would you do next? Let's see what the hero does" and so on. The multiple-choice ending completes the whole thing.
The story itself may not be very original, but it has a full sense of mistery and suspension: the character of professor Wilkens is melancholy yet simple, the setting in its whole is very good - a classic of mistery stories (the tale is inspired by M.R. James, and you can clearly see it).
The interactive part is very small: few actions to do, and the NPCs are very simple. The few puzzles are very easy. Reading is more needed than thinking in this game. This can be seen as its weak point, and it surely is. The game doesn't need much effort to be solved, and ends soon. But what it leaves behind is a good ghost-story, and that's enough for me.
Note: I am the author of the italian translation of this game.
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