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Blowjob Drifter Reviews
Author: Big Al
Date: 1998
Inform
What does AIF stand for? Adult Interactive Fiction.
If you likely to
be offended by games with sexual content, you are advised not
to open these
files.
Reviewed by A. Bomire
Basic Plot
The opening lines of this game tell you everything you need to know about the
plot: "You're really a people person: especially female people with big tits who
like to suck dick. Speaking of which, let's get to work." Upon those simple
terms is the game built: find girl, get a blowjob, repeat as necessary. If you
are looking for an engaging storyline or well thought out characters - boy are
you in the wrong game!
Overall Thoughts
For all of its simplistic nature (or perhaps because of it), this is not a game
to be shrugged off in favor of other, more engaging, games. It is terrifically
humorous, with an almost cartoonish quality. Some of the puzzles are solved in a
way that is so outlandish that you find yourself laughing out loud at the sheer
lunacy. Seemingly every girl you meet is practically dripping with innuendo -
whether it is the girl selling popsicles or the one sitting in her car caressing
the shifter. In any other game, it would be ridiculous - in this game, you
expect nothing less.
Puzzles/Game Play
Don't be fooled by the seeming simplicity of the game. The plot may be simple -
the puzzles are not! Oh, to be sure, there are several which are relatively
easy. In one case, you simply walk up to the female and tell her to begin oral
ministrations - and she does! But there are plenty that will have you scratching
your head and reaching for the walkthrough (if you can find one, they are very
tough to find since the AIF Portal shut down). Some of them use a twisted logic
that only a lunatic like Big Al could follow. And yes, there are a few
"guess-the-verb" problems as well.
As far as game play goes, this is a pretty linear game. The basic plot of "find
girl, get a blowjob" is the only plot of the game, and some may find it to be
repetitive and boring. Or, frustrating if you find the girl and can’t get past
her, because in several places you cannot continue until this obstacle is
removed.
Sex
Hmm...if you like blowjobs, and lots of them, you'll love this game. If you want
something more out of the game - you'll want to play something else. There are
over a dozen different female characters in this game, and none of them perform
any other sexual act than a blowjob. But, what did you really expect from a game
titled "Blow Job Drifter"?
Technical
This game comes from the age of AIF when the community was just moving from the
old AGT/DOS games and into what is considered the modern era of
Inform/TADS/ADRIFT. As such, it carries over a lot of the restrictions of the
older games. So, some of the technical flaws of this game can be forgiven as
they are a product of the times. For example, each woman is completely described
in her "examine" description as to body shape, clothing, hair, etc. But you
won't find an examinable body part or clothing item in the entire game. The same
goes true for some of the background items in the room descriptions. Other than
that, the game is pretty technically sound.
Final Thoughts
This game is one of the first of the AIF modern era, and in fact is one of the
few games that is accepted in the realm of mainstream IF. As such, it holds a
place in many AIF player's hearts near such other classic games as Moist and
Generic New York Apartment Building. It isn't nearly as fulfilling as these
giants of the genre, but there is something somehow compelling about the
single-mindedness of the game's protagonist, and the cartoonish quality of the
characters.
Rating: B+
Reviewed by Joe DeRouen (SPAG
#15 -- October 11, 1998)
Blow Job Drifter. The name doesn't automatically conjure up great images of
Interactive Fiction, does it? This is definitely an "adult" text adventure, but
just because it falls into that category doesn't necessarily make it a bad or
sloppily done game.
The object of the game, if you haven't already guessed, is to "score" orally
(and we're not talking about giving speeches here, buddy) with as many different
women as you can.
The game starts out in your apartment. You're naked and, for some reason that
I've yet to fathom, you have absolutely nothing in your home to wear. Your first
mission, then, is to find some clothes. After you've managed that fairly simple
task, the whole city (and beyond) awaits your lecherous advances. There are over
a dozen
different female targets in BJ Drifter. Because the game is fairly linear,
however, you'll have to go through most of them one by one.
Despite way, way, way too many instances of "guess the verb", the game is a fun
play. BJ Drifter doesn't take itself too seriously and thus serves as a parody
of sorts to the more "serious" adult IF out there. The writing is surprisingly
well done, the puzzles clever if a bit off- the-wall (when you get to the fish
stuck in the woman's mouth,
you'll know what I mean,) and the sex scenes . . . well, those you'll have to
judge for yourself. But aside from being obviously misogynist (the game is from
a male point of view, after all) they're pretty darned good.
This is the first adult IF game I've played in years. In fact, I think my last
such game was something called "Farmer's Daughter", which I played on the
Commodore 128 way back in the mid-eighties. BJ Drifter is heads (and, dare I say
it, tails) above that one, and manages to be fun and "adult" without being too
offensive. Of course,
if you're easily offended, you're probably better off staying away from BJ
Drifter. For the rest of us, though, it's a great Sunday afternoon diversion
that just may (bad pun alert!) keep you up all night.
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