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Microwave Man! Reviews
Author: Tim Clarke
Date: 2005
ADRIFT 4.0
Reviewed by David Welbourn
One point for originality: there's not many games that take place inside a
microwave oven. Shame it reads like any other "my messy bedroom" game. And it's
blatant what you've expected to do -- get out of the oven before you get nuked
or suffocate -- but the game is still mostly unplayable without the hints
because 1) there's guess-the-verb problems, and 2) neither the door nor the
shield are implemented as in-game objects that the player can experiment with.
Oh, and the author seems to have an odd idea how microwave ovens actually work,
so we also have 3) read-the-author's-mind to see how science works in this
reality.
Sadly unexplored are the many questions that would help explain how any of this
game is supposed to make a particle of sense. Why are you small enough to fit in
a microwave? Why are you living in a microwave if it's so deadly? Where'd you
find things in your size?
Ah well. It's a small game and there are in-game hints. Play it if you like
wacky speed-ifs, but otherwise, you probably want to play something else.
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