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Big Day Out Reviews 
Author: Loops Of Fury
Date: 2002
ADRIFT 3.9

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 BBBen (Inside Erin: The AIF Newsletter Volume 3 Number 7 July, 2007)

Hello again – it’s time to highlight another game that I feel has not received proper recognition from the AIF audience. Authors deserve recognition for their work, and it’s easy for them to feel under recognised in a community with a thousand lurkers to every active member. Of course, this column need not just be of interest to people looking to recognise the efforts of AIF authors – it can also be of interest to people looking to dig through the archives for some interesting AIF they might not have played before.

I wasn’t active in the AIF community until about a year after this game was released (I played the games, but hadn’t released any and didn’t read the forums), so I really don’t know how the game was received. I do know, however, that while the author Loops Of Fury intended to write a sequel called Big Night Out and to date there is no word on that ever being developed. It’s a pity because Big Day Out actually has quite a bit of very hot sex in the game – it’s actually a very enjoyable sex romp. It’s got a few of what I would probably consider either beginner mistakes or alternatively old school AIF features that current, experienced authors tend to try and avoid, but it does not feel at all underdeveloped.

The problems I mentioned extend to a certain clumsiness in puzzle design that doesn’t direct you to your objectives very well (such as they are – the objectives are not really pointed out in the game, and it falls to the readme to outline them) and they are tricky as a consequence. Take for example the opening ‘puzzle’; there’s quite a clever idea here, the game starts with a sex scene with your wife but you can’t have anal sex because she’s not interested – therefore one of your main objectives on this “big day out” is to soften her up to the idea and eventually come back and finish the job. It’s a very nice idea and I even like the subtle way it’s introduced – the only problem is that there is an arousal system in there that means she tells you to piss off if you try to feel her up unless you’ve kissed and hugged her about 8 times getting the same response every time. This wouldn’t be such a big deal puzzle-wise if I actually knew that this kind of behaviour was needed – this is one of the ‘beginner or old school mistakes’ I was talking about – I wasn’t frustrated trying to get into her pants, I just honestly didn’t realise she might become interested. These days authors tend to try and tip you off that a sex scene is coming up so you don’t just give up the fight, and that would have been nice here; I guess the point I’m making is that I needed a walkthrough to get through the game.

That said, I’ve replayed it a number of times because the sex is really good and once you know how to work the game out it’s a lot of fun. My favourite scene is with the player’s work-mate Allison, who is a closet submissive and likes to be called names; here’s an example:

> call allison bitch
Allison smiles at you. "Yes, BBBen, it's true I am a bitch. I'm a little slut. I'm a whore. I like being fucked and I want you to fuck me. I'll be your dirty bitch."

And the sex with several other girls, including the wife Cathy, is very good too. It does not always have quite the level of thoroughness that you might expect from a real legend of AIF writing, but, hell, I’ve been guilty of writing sex scenes that are more abrupt than most of the sex scenes in BDO. Also, as I mentioned, the game does actually have an arousal system, which is a rarity in an ADRIFT game (not because it can’t be done, just because it’s a hassle).

There are actually few games that are better within the ‘wandering around aimlessly fucking everything with tits’ genre (Sam Shooter I is better, for example, but that’s a classic) and it’s well worth a play if you haven’t tried it before. If you need a walkthrough use one, because it’s worth it to see the sex scenes.

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