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1-10 of 10 - lyda01, November 19, 2023 - EJ, December 30, 2022 With the very first sentence, mood and setting are already firmly in place, a setting which is only enhanced (and never contradicted) by further room and event descriptions. And best yet, although the game does tell you "this is who you are, this is what you can do", it never seems to do it in a way that felt limiting (to me), though ultimately, of course, it was rather narrow in scope.
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| Direct link | Add a comment >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction In the final analysis, it was probably a combination of factors that made me say, "Nice try, but it didn't really work for me." I still think a CYOA could work in the comp, but the lesson of Desert Heat is that such a game would not only have to be well-written and very well-plotted, but also wide enough and with enough available choices to provide a feeling of freedom at least somewhat comparable with parser games.
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An early CYOA dealing with a medieval Arabic setting and femininity, June 27, 2019This game contains erotic themes, but you’re told you can avoid anything explicit. I found that to be true, and played to two pleasing endings without encountering anything shocking. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle), April 16, 2012 - anj tuesday, January 25, 2009 - Al, November 27, 2008 - Tom Hudson (Durham, North Carolina), April 24, 2008 Baf's GuideA CYOA tale of intrigue and sexual slavery--you're an Arab woman at the center of some nefarious plots and romantic entanglements. The branching usually doesn't go very deep--most of the branches rejoin the main story before long--but there's enough variety to justify several trips through the story, and the choices you make do affect the text you see later on. The sexual content is fairly explicit, though, I thought, not gratuitously so, and it does reflect the story. As with any CYOA story, there's not a lot of interactivity here, but it's still a pretty good story. -- Duncan Stevens
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