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The Virtual Human Reviews
Author: Duncan Bowsman
Date: 2008
ADRIFT 4.0
Reviewed by WriterBob
After reading the "About the Story," section of "the
virtual human," page, I was intrigued. I've experienced other works of IF that
have offered personal insights, but this piece is not one of them. The decisions
that the player is expected to make are for the most part superficial.
This work is inspired by a Jorgen Leth film. Since I am not familiar with the
film, I can't say to what degree this work mimics the film. However, I suspect
that this work has the same issues that IF works inspired by non-interactive
media suffer from. This work runs as if it were on rails. The decisions made by
the player do not affect the outcome of the work.
Still, even with these issues, this work is smooth and polished. It is
interesting to play through once.
Reviewed by David Welbourn
How unusual. This isn't a game, but a chatterbox-cum-madlibs exercise where the
player answers questions about a virtual human and his/her/its environment by
entering arbitrary words and short phrases, and these answers are incorporated
into the ongoing poem.
The usual IF commands like "look" and "inventory" are quite meaningless here, so
players may not consider this to be "IF" at all. At least, not normal IF. It's
not really like Fugue, The Space Under the Window, or On the Other Side, but
it's closer to those than most other IF offerings I can think of.
A couple caveats: Note that since there's almost no checking that your inputs
are valid, it's best to play it straight. If you insist on typing in nonsense,
you'll get nonsense printed back at you. Also, please avoid typing AND or commas
in your responses; that gets your input line interpreted as multiple inputs.
Type an ampersand, & ,when you want an AND.
This isn't a deep game by any means, and it certainly won't teach you much of
anything about yourself, etc. But because the virtual human is so short and so
different, I do recommend that players try it out.
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