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1-9 of 9 - Joey Acrimonious, August 15, 2023 >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction I don't like the character, I don't care about the story, so what's keeping me here? Sometimes, really well-done writing, puzzles, or programming will do it. This game, unfortunately, had a number of bugs (though they weren't of the catastrophic variety -- mostly just input that the game failed to process in any way, even to give an error message), and I found myself unable to connect with its prose most of the time. There were some fine images (I particularly liked the moment when Katie's smile is described as "brittle as leaves"), but too much of it felt self-consciously poetic, reaching for profundity it didn't quite grasp. What kept me in the game instead were glimpses. At times during the conversation scene, I felt a flash of really deep immersion, that feeling that the game will understand anything I type, where the interface melted away and it felt like a conversation. Even during the sex scene, there were a couple of points where the implementation was deep enough that even though I never lost awareness that I was just typing commands into a keyboard, I felt like the PC would understand most any instruction I gave him.
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Crimes Against Eros/is, July 24, 2011by Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle) Related reviews: aif, pornography, how not to do it, discordian, sex, eris Kallisti is the game I most love to hate. There are few pleasures in IF more deliciously guilty than introducing Kallisti to someone and watching their jaw drop. Most bad IF is just boring; it's rare to find one where every piece of text makes you flinch. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (1) - Add comment
- hywelhuws (Clynnog Fawr, Wales, UK), September 19, 2008 - Stephen Bond (Leuven, Belgium), October 26, 2007 Baf's GuideStartlingly dreadful. The pornographic elements are tasteless and banal; the narrative voice is turgid and self-consciously "literary"; and the gameplay consists largely of guess-the-topic puzzles (during the seduction) and guess-the-verb moments (during the culmination). Other games that are merely incompetent have a hard time competing with the deliberate awfulness of this piece. -- Emily Short
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