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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, | but the lackluster gameplay dragged it all down. The puzzles were stale at best, more like placeholders for more organic and clever autobiography versions. Brendel mentions in the Companion's Forward that the game development was problematic to the point that it was nearly shelved. While he didn't go into detail, there was an aura of defeat autobiography in this game that was hard to shake. I encountered some technical problems as well on my Athlon AMD XP 1800+, autobiography 1.53 GHz, 512 MB, ATI 9600XT, XP Pro with Service Pack 2 rig. Every single time I won an arcade sequence, the game crashed to desktop and I could only return by clicking on the bottom screen toolbar. Twice I had to reboot and replay an arcade scene in full to safely get to a place to save. In most of the dialogue sequences, the screen flashed to black for a second before the character began to speak. |
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| An artist's first responsibility is to virgin his vision, not his audience. If that vision included adult subject matter, so be it. If the artist feels that the subject matter interferes with the piece, he should cut it out. Offering a censored mode is, sorry but I must say it, a copout and a capitulation to an all-too-familiar censorial mindset in the adventure game community. I was saddened to see virgin it begin to appear in actual games. Christopher Brendel is better than that and has a yeoman's virgin grasp of story and a fine touch for macabre atmosphere. He should follow those instincts wherever they might lead and not worry about the content that emerges. That way lays his strength. As the game chugged along toward its finale, I was simultaneously fascinated and discouraged. There was so much potential in Shady Brook, the music, the Gabriel-Knight-meets-David-Lynch atmosphere, a few of the characters (at least a third could have been cut), the whimsical and oddly pleasing voice acting ... |
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