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Red Skirt Reviews
Author: Begferdeth
Date: 2010
Inform
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.
Review by A.
Bomire
Game Play
The game is rather short. After you solve a set
of puzzles, you confront Darvon. There you challenge him to a game. He wants you
to play his version of marbles, but you convince him to exchange sexual acts.
The main point of the game (besides the sex), is to satirize many of the
stereotypes of the original Star Trek series.
Sex
The sex in this game
is part of the game you play with Darvon. Your goal is to outlast Darvon, as
with each of his orgasms one of your crewmates is released. The sex scenes are
actually fairly well written and hot.
Final Thoughts
This game has a
nostalgic feel for "old time" AIF-ers, such as myself. It harkens back to the
early days, when almost every AIF game was based upon the Star Trek universe.
Begferdeth offers a new take on the familiar theme, satirizing the original
series. Some of the humor comes off as too "in your face", while others are more
subtle pokes at the series (the "painted styrofoam" cave walls and boulder, for
example).
Review by
Rip_CPU
Concept
Points immediately awarded for making a Star Trek
game. Some of the earliest AIFs were Star Trek fan games, and it's good to see
someone return to this theme. I did find it rather distracting that instead of
being named Kirk or Spock, the characters have such parody names like Captain
Cork, Commander Shock. I think it would've been fine to simply go with the
original names, the tone of satire is clear enough that we don't need to change
the names around.
Game Play
The puzzles were made well enough, and
fairly fun for what they were. They weren't so complex as to require leaps of
logic or guess the verb, but they weren't immediately obvious either. But they
seemed a little pointless, existing merely to take up rooms and time. Why is
there a boulder monster, or a phaser-proof door with blinking lights? No reason,
just because they're there.
Technical
There are some minor technical
bugs here and there. For example, during the sex sequence, you can get a message
saying that your partner is still dressed so you can't give him a blowjob. But
then the game gives the blowjob description anyhow, and you can get points for
it too. In another example, while the rest of the away team were trapped in
giant glass balls, the objects were inconsistently named. The giant ball
containing Shock was named: "Shock's Ball", but the one containing the Captain
was simply named "cork". None of these bugs are too offensive or gamebreaking,
but do suggest a lack of betatesting.
Sex
The meat and potatoes of
this game, the sex is pretty decently written, but not actually all that...
sexy. For a green-skinned alien babe, the PC is no different from any generic
girl from earth. And for an all powerful Q-like entity, Darvon seems like a
COMPLETE twit.
Final Thoughts
The game isn't bad, but it isn't great
enough to be memorable. It is simply fun, generally inoffensive and not too
complex.
Review by
Purple Dragon
Game Play
First off, this game is set in the Star
Trek universe, and not only that, but in the time of the original series. That
in itself was enough to get me interested. When I started playing I was even
happier about the way it was turning out. The author has a good sense of humor,
and the little inside jokes like the styrofoam cave walls and the rock monster
has me chuckling to myself as I played.
The game play itself is pretty
standard for a mini-comp entry. There is a single sex scene, and a couple of
puzzles thrown in the way to get to said sex scene. Nothing too inventive, but
nothing particularly bad either.
Technical
There were several little
problems here, but nothing too distracting. Little inconsistencies and typos
once again show the point of having the game beta tested, but they didn't ruin
the game for me at all.
I did find it a little amusing that you can kill
all three of your crewmates and then proceed with the rest of the game as if
nothing happened, having sex with Darvon for the prize of him sending their
corpses back up to the ship. Then again, the sex isn't really supposed to be a
means to an end, but the end itself right?
Sex
Speaking of the sex, I
found it to be pretty good overall. It was well-written and pretty darn hot. I
will echo Rip's comments that more could have been done with the fact that the
two participants are aliens, and one a nearly all-powerful one, but that would
have been icing on the cake. Not having it didn't detract from what was there in
my opinion.
Final Thoughts
Good writing, good humor, hot sex, and Kirk
-- er, sorry -- Cork and the crewmembers smoldering corpses in big glass balls,
what's not to love?
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