9:05

by Adam Cadre profile

Slice of life
2000

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A good introduction, April 13, 2018
by calindreams (Birmingham, England)

This game has been one of the first pieces of interactive I have actually got to the end of. Short and enjoyable and I'm sure most people would appreciate it more on a replay.

Maybe I would have given an extra star to my rating if I hadn't figured out the twist on the first play through. My experience of the story maybe would have been improved if (Spoiler - click to show) I hadn't been quite so thorough in my initial exploration of the appartment or that the author could have made it a little more difficult to find the key element of the story>.

Otherwise I would definitely recommend this game to people.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Brilliant, Short, and Effective, October 16, 2017
by Angharade
Related reviews: short

The writing was clever and direct. The slight details were teases- and enjoyable even at the very beginning. I had a ton of fun with a relatively simple concept. I think this is a fantastic game to help someone understand interactive fiction, or see the appeal, without getting bogged down with too much writing or guessing the author's intentions. I really liked this. A unique jaunt in the slice of life genre.

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1 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Don't bother, July 7, 2017

Very short, non-engaging, and lackluster plot that you don't get to explore

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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Short & Sweet, March 18, 2017
by RottenSnail
Related reviews: beginner, short, easy, funny, replay

This is a very short, simple game with a sense of humor. I think beginners to IF will find it very easy and rewarding. It's the kind of game where the player gains enjoyment upon replaying it, which I highly recommend. Even playing through twice, it's a very quick game.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
My first IF adventure, February 5, 2017

I found this story on a list of recommended IF for beginners. I shared it with my middle school students, and we had a good time with it. You can easily play through in 20-30 minutes, and there are at least three different endings depending on the path you take. I recommend 9:05 as a good first story to read!

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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Fun, May 9, 2016

9:05 is the time you wake up, and about how long this IF takes. Being short isnt a bad thing. As others have said, it really calls for a replay. Its 10 minutes, what have you got to lose

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Slice of Life... With a Twist!, April 4, 2016
by PDearmore (Central New York)
Related reviews: z-machine, infom, slice-of-life, puzzleless, crime

9:05 is essentially a puzzle-less game in which you can play through a few different ways to experience a slice of life from a few different angles. I'm not usually one to play a game through after reaching the end, but this piece is short, and replaying it seems like almost the entire point (you'll only see what I mean once you have tried it). With that being said, there's not really a satisfying ending. I kept looking for ways to "win" but there were only other paths you could take--the most interesting one being the path that you probably took in the first place.

9:05 is the first piece of IF from Adam Cadre that I can remember playing. Not that I've been purposefully avoiding his stuff--it just happens that I haven't gotten to it yet. I will definitely check out his other stuff--I see quite a few games out there.

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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Entertaining short little game, January 16, 2016
by 24Fanatic (Charlotte, NC)

Interesting, quick game to play. I enjoyed it. If you haven't played this one at least once, you should.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Hook Line and Sinker!, October 24, 2015
by RickyD (South Carolina, USA)

Wonderful little game. The whole time I played it, I felt a little uneasy and kept wondering what the "catch" was. Superbly done! I've played it several times since and found three different endings, and I'm sure I've missed a few details here and there along the way.

The environment is a little sparse (though it does include a working toilet, of all things!) Commands are very basic. Unfortunately, I kept running into "Noun error" or "Command not understood" errors doing things that I thought were relatively normal. That was a little bit annoying, but not the end of the world. Once I got a feel for what you could and couldn't do, it was OK.

Absolutely worth playing, and if you do play it, you have to play it again.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Rim Shot!, May 12, 2015
by scottmbruner (alameda, california)

This game is a perfect koan of an IF that plays with all of your expectations. I've seen a lot of folks say this is perfect for an IF beginner – which, considering how easy it is to navigate makes sense – except that the twist is very much based on a classic IF meme (and I worry that a newcomer wouldn't quite get why it's so funny.)

I knocked it one star...because, I was disappointed in the replays after knowing what happens (I loved the initial experience, but playing it again, I was a bit disappointed).

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