CYPHER: Cyberpunk Text Adventure

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"Cypher is a fundamentally flawed game. It’s a text adventure wrapped in sound and imagery that does a good job of painting the cyberpunk world of NeoSushi (For some bizarre reason Tokyo has changed its name to NeoSushi, I’m not sure if this is a joke or a dig at corporate sponsorship). But all the work that went into immersing the player with the audio-visual experience is completely shattered by the arbitrary and tedious text adventure mechanics that are simply broken. There isn’t a healthy pool of recognizable phrases, words and sentence structures plus the game’s own internal logic will often chop and change to confuse and confound an already agitated gamer." (Michael Raston)