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Plains of Fantasy Reviews
Author: Paul Swift
Date: 2007
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 Grimm Sharlak
Another different concept game, and another well-realised main character.
Although the character you play manages to be even more repulsive than a goblin,
as you play a middle-aged, disgusting MMO obsessive. The writing attempts to
poke fun at such people (still living with his mother, in the basement, etc) but
comes off more mean-spirited than funny.
It doesn’t help that the game itself is rather difficult. And not for good
reasons, either. The whole idea is to login to the MMO Plains of Fantasy and uh…
Get it on. However, doing such a thing is actually a lot harder than you’d
think; just turning on the computer is a trial, requiring you to not so much
solve a puzzle as to look at absolutely bloody everything and then struggle with
some poor implementation to solve. Remember writers, DVDs and DVD players are
separate things, and making sure the game knows that is difficult too.
Once I actually managed the task of logging into the game, I was met with one
room, nowhere to go and a conversation tree that was endlessly repetitive. No
matter what the reward, the player has to struggle through a lot in this game,
and it ultimately isn’t worth it.
Rating: C
Reviewed by Softiron
Playing a disgusting male in his mother’s basement who’s addicted to virtual
porn wasn’t enough to turn me off this game. The pointless hunger puzzle didn’t
even bother me that much. Nor was yet another RPG conversation system enough to
make me shake my head. No, this time it was the guess-the-verb frustration that
eventually forced me to quit shortly after I killed a bunny to impress my
virtual mate.
Hey, at least I wasn’t forced to rape anybody.
Plains Of Fantasy thanks the stalker for it’s 11th place finish on my ballot.
Stroke Meter: ?
Reviewed by David Whyld
Damn, this was frustrating. I hate games with item carrying restrictions that
never seem to work out quite right. I can carry X amount of items, try to pick
up another, find I can’t, try to pick up something different, find I can.
Aarggghghh! Then I need to use my computer but I can’t because I don’t have all
the required items but it never tells me what they are. Then there's the DVD
player and the DVD I have but only WATCH DVD works. Attempts to use it, turn it
on, etc, etc, don’t.
But, finally, I got everything to work and there I am, transported to the Plains
of Fantasy… and the bugs here hit so hard even the most heroic hero in a world
of heroes would be left running off with his D20 between his legs. I checked my
inventory at one point and saw this oddity:
YOU ARE WEARING A MICROPHONE HEADSET AND A GROIN ATTACHMENT, AND YOU ARE
CARRYING NOTHING. 1337-H4XX0R-GUY IS CARRYING -HIS ARMOUR- -HIS SWORD-
Between one move and the next I appear to have become two different characters.
I was further confused when trying to give my sword to Hotgurl19 and being told
that I couldn’t give away items that I didn’t have. Yet I did have it. It was
right there in my inventory. Only, funnily enough, when I tried to GET SWORD
*again*, it let me pick it up a second time and after that finally seemed to
realise I was actually carrying it.
As for what Hotgurl19 is like? Beats me. I can’t examine her because the game
doesn’t seem to understand who I'm referring to. I can talk to her, but
following every conversation option fails to get me anywhere. In a game where
interaction (of a very specific kind) with the sole female NPC is required, the
fact that you can’t even examine her is a major flaw. In the end, I just had to
quit. The writing was nice enough and the setting was kind of amusingly
tongue-in-cheek, but this game is a long, long way from being finished and is in
desperate need of some proper testing.
Arousal: (as I didn’t get as far as a proper sex scene) not much.
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