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A very playable last-place effort, January 9, 2015Laterna Magica got dumped on pretty harshly in the IFComp, but it's by far the best last-place game I've seen since I've paid attention (2010.) I'd go so far as to call it the best bottom-three game I've seen. This seems like faint praise, but when I paged through the comp results, I was shocked to find it dead last. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next BlitzWithGuns, January 9, 2015 - Reply Good review. To tell the truth, I enjoyed playing this game a little. It's not unplayable like the older last placed comp games like Ninja. It's writing was just a little off. There was other games in the comp that deserved lower placings, but won't be mentioned. Andrew Schultz, January 9, 2015 - Reply Thanks, yeah, with this game, there's definite logic, and I've circled around before making realizations myself. And yeah, it's tough to finger a game that should place below it, because that's kind of not nice to other authors. I also think the blurb was rather bad--mainly because I was already thinking "Geez, what IS Laterna Magica? A typo?" even before I saw it. So I think the game sold itself a bit poorly--a better fault than most, but disproportionately heavy in a competition. BlitzWithGuns, January 10, 2015 - Reply Yeah, the blurb was pretty hilarious for me! It's like the feeling before you go to sleep and suddenly, you think, "What in the world is Laterna Magica????". And you stay up the whole night just thinking about what it is. The author should have written better if he wants to enter a comp. |