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All Hallows Eve Reviews
Author: Alvin Echeverria
Date: 2010
ADRIFT 4.0
Reviewed by roboman
This is my first adventure game that ever managed to play through, so I don't
have (m)any experiences, but:
It's a good point that the author have a great sense of humour. It's just one
example the zombie-ninja-cat thing.
I like how the creator plays with the text: I like the many <BR>'s and waitings
and other marks, these make the text more vivid.
First I tried to play it with Adrift 5.0, but some commands just don't work, and
when I played with Adrift 4.0, the final command: THROW LOVE POTION TO WITCH,
doesn't work.
I recommend this game for first Adrift game.
Reviewed by J. J. Guest
SCORE: 6
Comments: The introduction alone must have taken three hours to write!
Unfortunately I couldn't solve this without looking at the generator. Loved the
old woman whose speeches featured punctuation straight out of Tristram Shandy...
I can't give this game a really high score because the problems with it were too
numerous to mention here. But I absolutely loved playing it! Compulsively,
engagingly odd.
Reviewed by Wade Clarke
SCORE: Couldn't score this one because I couldn't play it. I have a Mac, and
this was the only ADRIFT game that would not run on any of the Macintosh
interpreters - Spatterlight, Zoom or Scare.
Reviewed by BlueMaxima
SCORE: 5.5
Comments: Idea seems kind of old. Long character names are particularly boring
to type when asking random questions. Presentation is horrible for some parts (a
whole screen just for a room description? Really?)
Reviewed by Eric Anderson
SCORE: 3.97
Comments: My main frustration is poor descriptions and being highly dependant on
conversations to even look for items. Had to go to the generator to find info.
Example: toadstools weren't defined anywhere and would never have guessed that
"The smell is atrocious." might have been the clue. Also the NPC's should have
used aliases instead of typing the entire name.
Reviewed by Duncan Bowsman
This year, I've decided to associate a song by Rush with each game along with
its score.
SCORE: 6 zombie ninja cats out of 10.
Song: "Finding My Way"
Comments: -Lots of pauses, long intro
-Room descriptions make implementation easy to sort
-The writing is funny
-Pausing in every room description really interrupts the flow of gameplay
-Lots of empty space in descriptions... why?
-Characters don't have synonyms?
-No hints/help.
-"ask old lady coot about witch"-- interesting.
-"splash water into cauldron"-- SPLASH is an uncommon verb and there is no
cauldron at Old Lady Coot's, where I did that.
-Wouldn't have put the cauldron on the tall grass, as that made it invisible
until the grass was looked at.
-I had no idea I had to pick up the small cauldron-- that would have gone well
in the potion book's instructions.
-Task construction really could have used wildcards
-TO THROW LOVE POTION: (must be executable in room), must be held by player and
in small cauldron--so, must be in cauldron, player must hold cauldron--a bit
odd.
-Finishing with just the game after just doing the bare minimum (making the
potion, getting candy from the witch) gives the player a 42% completion. The
alternate solution provides 65% completion by itself. Well, who cares about
score, anyway?
Reviewed by DCBSupafly
SCORE: 5
Comments: Great setting and characters. I like the potion book as a recipe for
success, but the tasks for completing it seemed a little obscure.
Reviewed by Mel Stefaniuk
SCORE: 6
Comments: This was an incredibly strange game but it did have a weird charm to
it. It did some slightly annoying things like the waiting you'd have to do
whenever you looked around certain rooms but on the whole it was funny and
written and presented in a very unique way.
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