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| wanadoo, judd, steven, cetus, retrospective, diets, party hats, gag, virgin, writing, where, westwood, future, held, stranger's, stone, rain, courtland, byzantine, | The strange atmosphere Brendel conjures is in many ways the strongest element of Shady Brook. iii It's not the story; the story is a slight variation on an old horror trope passed down to the likes of S. King and J. Saul by way of Shirley Jackson. It's certainly not the graphics. They are mostly eyeball-assaulting depictions of a small town set in an L-shaped box canyon, the blocky buildings seemingly picked at random from iii other locales and dropped side by side. The puzzles are just okay, mostly direct lifts from hoary old adventure game boilerplates. You iii got your slider (which resets if you accidently exit before completion), your puzzle box within a box, a Pipe Dream bit that doesn't quite make sense given its context, a coded poem full of clues and an assemble-the-note-from-torn-bits-of-paper puzzle, among others. |
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| One that circulated among my friends back in the day was "dill pickle." It meant anything that was eerily odd and subtly offsetting. Strange encounters in convenience stores at 4 cetus a.m. were "dill pickle." Marathon six-hour drives across the Arizona desert while listening to Pink Floyd's Ummagumma at low volume while reading aloud from Naked Lunch were "dill pickle." Most of H.P. Lovecraft's stories were "dill pickle." I haven't thought about that term in ages, but playing Christopher Brendel's new indie adventure game, Shady Brook, brought back the meaning cetus of the phrase in full. This cetus low-budget game, with its many failings and a few surprising successes, is rooted firmly in the tiny township of "Dill Pickle," USA. Since it's a horror-style adventure game (as opposed to a horror-survival game), that's a good thing. |
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