9:05

by Adam Cadre profile

Slice of life
2000

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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Stay on your toes..., April 23, 2012

Love this game! It's a very short little tidbit, but worth at least two play thrus. Perfect for some casual game time. Just don't be cocky...

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Great Fun!, March 20, 2012
by Jim Kaplan (Jim Kaplan has a room called the location. The location of Jim Kaplan is variable.)
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Play it if: you have a sense of humor.

Don't play it if: you're under the impression that your time is too precious to bother with a game that isn't long, complex, or challenging.

I don't think a game has made me laugh that hard in ages!

There's only so much one can say about a game like this, because it has a very specific, fairly spoiler-iffic aim in mind. Discussing difficulty, the command system, and technical innovation would have no point. Suffice to say that it accomplishes its goal. It has some significant replay value: it's only on a second playthrough, observing the seemingly mundane yet rather precise way in which everything is described and reported, that you realize how tight the writing really is.

This is my first experience with Adam Cadre's work, and on the strength of this one alone I'm going to go check out some of his other stuff.

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0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Awesome!, February 27, 2012

Oh man, I totally didn't see that coming. And here I thought I was just going to be late for work! Very well written. Short, but very entertaining, certainly worth playing.

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
The perfect introduction to IF - and a fine treat for veteran players, January 2, 2012
by Joe Pereira (Portugal)

This game is the perfect introduction to IF - great writing, simple puzzles, fantastic sense of humour, it's very short (20 minutes with a 2nd or 3rd playthrough) and an absolutely classic ending. It cleverly plays on the classic trope in IF of the player-character seemingly knowing as much about the environment as the interactor. A MUST play game.

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0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
First IF, quite a treat!, December 14, 2011

I decided to try the whole IF thing out, and this was the first story on my list in my iPad viewer. So I dove in and tried to see what this was all about.

I must say, this was an absolute treat! So quick and simple, yet rewarding as ever! Definitely worth the short time it will take to get through, and even more worth a second or third play.

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Small game, a lot to think about, September 5, 2011
by Deboriole (San Diego, CA)

I played this game first since it was in so many 'beginner' lists and enjoyed it but felt it was a little lacking in the fun department. Getting ready for work is not ideal gameplay, but the ending (or variety thereof) makes the effort worthwhile. I wasn't sure what to think upon looking in the trunk of my car, and got even more confused when I tried to put all of the stuff back in the house to no avail. But it all made sense in the end. Good beginner game. Make sure you save so you can appreciate the alternate choices.

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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Short, funny and smart, April 13, 2011

Short, funny, and smart. Those are three words I'd use to describe this game. It's rather short, but its story is smart, makes you think a little. Definitely worth a couple of re-plays, there are multiple endings. Although very short, it remains a brilliant game with some surprises.

I highly recommend this game!

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6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
An argument for minimalism, November 27, 2010
by The Year Is Yesterday (California)

The value of 9:05 is in its perfectly spare prose.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
My favourite, November 14, 2010

This would have to be my favourite piece of IF ever, and not without good reason. It may be short, and pretty much devoid of puzzles, but the story is what makes this such an excellent bit of storytelling. Without giving anything away, the first playthrough appears to be a normal day, but eventually it unfolds into something more. When I first downloaded this, I played through it many times, to find all of the endings, and because of the short playing time I could try all of the possibilities.
It is a short and brilliant piece of Interactive Fiction, that nobody who has played it can forget.

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Pure, pure, gold, October 3, 2010
by Stumpy (A maze of twisty little passages, all alike (apart from the one I'm currently in))

This was the first piece of IF I've played in a good many years and I stumbled across it quite by accident.

At first, with it being so short I thought either I'd done something wrong in my playthrough, but then the whole joke dawned on me.

Even on the second (OK, and the third) playthrough there were those superb little nuggets that I'd missed previously that, had I found them, would have made the whole thing soooo obvious (but so much less enjoyable).

A short, but superb romp that made me smile throughout.

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