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No Ordinary Love Reviews
Author:
Vachon
Date: 2004
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 Purple Dragon
Basic Story
You and your sister Lucy are lovers. Your parents have found out about it
and locked her in her room. You have to find some way of getting around the
obstacles to reach your true love.
Overall Thoughts
I thought that there couldn’t be anything more annoying than the author’s usual
habit of leading you through the game one step at a time with no real choice of
what to do next.
I was wrong. In this game you have a choice, you can do different things
but none of them seem to make any difference in the end. It’s one bug
layered on top of another. I talk more
about that in a moment.
Puzzles/Game Play
If you were playing this game the way that the author probably meant you to (not
that I would presume to know what this author is thinking most of the time) then
there are a
couple of simple puzzles that you have to get past. In addition to the
standard find object/give object puzzles there is a conversational puzzle.
A very simple one, true, but at least he was trying something different.
Sex
To say this game is light on the sexual content is an understatement.
There are
two sisters in the house (isn’t it usually three? Oh well) the one you are
in love with (Lucy) and the other one (Kim). The only sexual encounter is
with Kim and there are a total of 5 commands if you count kissing her twice.
I suppose I could have missed one but I got all the points so I doubt it.
In most cases this would be a bad thing but this author’s games are the only AIF
games I know that are actually improved the less sex they have so it all works
out.
Technical
Ok, here we go. Technically speaking this is the absolute worst game of
his
that I have played. Let’s start with the big one, the locked door.
Lucy is supposed to be locked in her room but in the very beginning you can walk
right in. In fact, do you want a walkthrough for the game? Here you
go.
S
S
S
Fuck Lucy
Game done and if you simply must play it, I suggest that you use that
walkthrough. You still won’t enjoy the game but at least you won’t waste
as much time.
But for a moment lets just ignore the fact that her door is wide open and that
there is really no point in all the clever little puzzles he set up. One
thing you are going to need is the video but where is it? I know there has
to be one because when you walk into your parents’ room the description tells
you “If you want to watch a move (sic), just type ‘play video.’” There are two
desks in the room so that looks like a good place to start. Open the left
desk and you find a magazine, which you can take and read and which you need
later for another puzzle. When you open the right desk you find . . .
nothing. Hmm, that’s strange. After looking around for the video I
went back to the room and took a closer look at that desk. You can examine
the desk and the drawer but there is nothing in it. I tried ‘x video’,
nothing. Then, on a whim, I tried ‘take video’ eureka! The
invisible, nonexistent video pops into being and all is well with the world.
The video is of your parents having sex and you can use it to blackmail your
mother into unlocking Lucy door (which is already unlocked remember). I
assume that this was supposed to be the solution to getting into
her room. There is talk of a ladder and climbing up to her window but the
ladder is described as being broken, not that it matters since you can’t get
outside anyway.
There are many other bugs but you probably get the idea. Whenever you
decide to go into her room, it always ends the same way. As soon as you
try anything sexual with her
she tosses you out for having sex with Kim and the game ends. This happens
even if you have never even seen Kim so like I said, anything you do seems to be
pointless in the end.
Final Thoughts
This was a very bad game. Even if is hadn’t had all the bugs it still
would
have been a bad game but with them there is absolutely no reason to waste you
time on it. I thought about giving it a few points for not making me sit
though pages and pages of
“ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
yyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss,
fffffuuuuuuuckkkkkkkk mmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeee.
IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
wiiiiiiillllllllllllllllll
ccccccuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!”
But in the end I decided not to since I don’t want anyone getting the wrong
idea. To paraphrase the comic book guy, “Worst Game Ever!”
Rating: F
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