Status shinespark Sep 21, 2024
Just starting out with this one, it's a text parser murder mystery heavily inspired by Roberta Williams's EGA classic, The Colonel's Bequest.
I wasn't around to play these sorts of graphical parser games when they were still in fashion, but I've got immense nostalgia for the point and click adventure that followed after, and deep love for the pure-text interactive …
Just starting out with this one, it's a text parser murder mystery heavily inspired by Roberta Williams's EGA classic, The Colonel's Bequest.
I wasn't around to play these sorts of graphical parser games when they were still in fashion, but I've got immense nostalgia for the point and click adventure that followed after, and deep love for the pure-text interactive fiction which came before. So finally playing something from this awkward evolutionary midpoint is a real treat.
The mystery proper hasn't kicked off yet, but the text parser is immediately super impressive, with all the standard text adventure shortcuts and a bevy of special-case commands to facilitate conversation and clue-finding. Also super cool is that everything but the music was made by a single author, Julia Minamata! I'm ransacking every inch of a fancy hotel, I'm taking handwritten notes, and I can't wait to crack the case.
