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Hard Core Reviews
Author: Hardcord IF
Date: 2007
TADS
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 David Whyld
90% of the commands I typed hit me with TYPE VERBS FOR
A LIST OF VERBS. Not very helpful as the game seems to understand a grand total
of 12 verbs (2 of which are QUIT and RESTART, 1 is LOOK and if WAIT does
anything I never could figure out what). Only the bare basics of IF seem to be
covered. Trying to have sex with Pam proved a nightmare (though considering the
way she's described in the game it's probably a nightmarish experience anyway…)
Pretty much nothing would work and guess the verb puzzles associated with trying
to have sex just aren't my cup of tea. I suppose a simple FUCK PAM would have
been too much to ask for?
From the technical side of things, the game seemed to throw error messages at me
like they were going out of fashion. Aside from the constant advice to type
verbs for a list of verbs whenever I tried something the writer hadn't
anticipated, which was often, FUCK SAMANTHA produced ERROR: NOUN NOT AVAILABLE*.
At other times I saw ERROR: SENTENCE FORM NOT ACCEPTED which was confusing to
say the least.
* Admittedly Samantha wasn't present but I'd reached the stage where I was just
typing *anything* to try and get a response.
But all that aside, the game's main failing is that it's about trying to have
sex with a women that you're repeatedly told (and the feeling is hammered home
very frequently) that you don't find sexually attractive. As a game designed to
arouse the player, this one has an uphill struggle right from the word go.
After several minutes of pointlessly typing in commands to see if I could hit on
the right one by sheer chance, the game ended and I was told I'd failed. Not a
moment too soon.
Arousal: very limp.
Reviewed by Softiron
If you ever wanted the pleasures of a Rubik’s cube infused with an AIF game,
this is surely your cup of tea. The introduction is long, but
entertaining, explaining how the PC has come to be a
socially and sexually frustrated human being, and how he came to be married to a
woman who doesn’t help matters any. Now, a father of two kids and
approaching middle age, the PC stills find sex to be difficult and unfulfilling.
But your wife is willing tonight, if you can somehow manage to turn her and
yourself on enough to be able to go through with it. Oh, and you have
sixty turns before she’ll give up.
Even though the PC is depressing, and any hopes of this game being titillating
are shot straight to hell from the beginning, I love the concept. The verb
“think about” certainly yield some more entertaining backstory (and sometimes
some cruel endings), and approaching your goal feels similar to completing an
elaborate lock and key from an Infocom puzzlefest.
Ultimately, however, I was unable to solve the Rubik’s cube, and the limited
available actions hampered my desire to try and complete it.
But the promising concept alone was enough for Hardcore to finish in a hard 9th
place on my ballot.
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