A strange little game, this. There's evidence of a delightfully fun personality behind the writing. I found myself laughing out loud more than once when the Flaming Mask guy suddenly demanded to have his nose scratched in the middle of prophesying the planet's doom.
On the other hand, the basic plot is never explained sufficiently for the average player to figure out just what the HECK is going on. The game comes with a step-by-step walkthrough, and that's a good thing, because many of the puzzles are only solved by doing completely unrelated things. I resent this -- there ought to be some sort of internal logic that allows the persistent user to actually *solve* a problem occasionally instead of just tripping over the solution because you threw everything in your inventory at it.
It also needs to be said that the game is buggy. The game's forum shows that everyone else had the same problem I did -- inexplicable freezes that require you to reboot to get out of the game.
But problems aside, the game's sense of humor makes up for a lot. I played, laughed, got frozen, cursed heartily, rebooted, and went back to playing. But if you have blood pressure problems, perhaps you might want to think this one over carefully.
A strange little game, this. There's evidence of a delightfully fun personality behind the writing. I found myself laughing out loud more than once when the Flaming Mask guy suddenly demanded to have his nose scratched in the middle of prophesying the planet's doom. On the other hand, the basic plot is never explained sufficiently for the average player to figure out just what the HECK is going on. The game comes with a step-by-step walkthrough, and that's a good thing, because many of the puzzles are only solved by doing completely unrelated things. I resent this -- there ought to be some sort of internal logic that allows the persistent user to actually *solve* a problem occasionally instead of just tripping over the solution because you threw everything in your inventory at it. It also needs to be said that the game is buggy. The game's forum shows that everyone else had the same problem I did -- inexplicable freezes that require you to reboot to get out of the game. But problems aside, the game's sense of humor makes up for a lot. I played, laughed, got frozen, cursed heartily, rebooted, and went back to playing. But if you have blood pressure problems, perhaps you might want to think this one over carefully.