Review scoopings 2/5 · Apr 4, 2022
Decent, Goofy Sci-Fi Text Adventure--But A Bit Too Long And Tedious
Play: 7/10 Nice to see advanced parsers as the new norm. Funny but surprisingly legitimate and fun adventure with reasonable puzzles. Descriptive at first with too much trying to be funny, but eventually got to the point and became a fun survival text adventure. I forgot how nice straight-up text-only text adventures can be since not busy admiring/focusing on graphics, …
Play: 7/10 Nice to see advanced parsers as the new norm. Funny but surprisingly legitimate and fun adventure with reasonable puzzles. Descriptive at first with too much trying to be funny, but eventually got to the point and became a fun survival text adventure. I forgot how nice straight-up text-only text adventures can be since not busy admiring/focusing on graphics, just straight gameplay. I liked that it was less focused on random/rng based death and more on hunger etc, one of the better of the frustrations of the earliest text adventures like the flashlight battery of many early ones, etc.
Feel: 7/10 Not only was it late when I started this, but my eyes were super tired. So I figured I'd give this a quick playtest and decide if it were worth a full playthrough, considering that it was text-only and I usually don't wanna read on a screen just in a book when I'm tired. But it somehow actually kind of woke me up with its humor sure (which really wasn't all that good imo, even as a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide and Vonnegut etc... I did like the affectionate android/robot tho heh... prefer the depressed one from Hitchhiker's tho :-p ) and I realized I had to do an earnest playthrough and review heh. Argh.
Attachment: 6/10 Despite these positive statements, it really started to drag mid- to end-game. And the humor and descriptions weren't enough to push through. Doubt I will be returning to this, tho a decent humorous sci-fi text adventure!
Completion: About half-way Playtime: ~20 mins
