I am playing this game to see if my hard drive has been possessed by demons or something. So far, nothing, but we’ll see.
I guess you don’t need to see me typing it, but I took the picture and it’s going in, damn it. Also, a chair.
Deer meat and water. Presumably it goes off at some point. Or maybe it’s salted, I don’t know. Moving one space removes the examine effect unless autoexamine is on and I don’t feel like turning it on. I have this feeling it’ll get to be a bastard when we’re in the forest, and I have no idea what’ll happen when I get to the city. Now, let’s check out inventory.
Slim pickings. But hey, we have a bow and arrow, so that’s nice. Presumably our PC is good at hunting, or we wouldn’t have deer meat. I have not fought anyone as of yet, so I don’t know how combat works. I’ll take some deer meat, and then we’ll head outside.
I have this habit of occasionally being retarded. Therefore, the first time I played this, it took me what felt like forever (5 minutes) to figure out that you can type ‘travel’ and it goes to a travel screen.
We’ll try Other later. This is as far as I got the first time by the way. From here on in we are exploring this together, hand in hand. To Nehmotep!
Woah, awesome, random encounter. My first fight in this game! Let’s get going.
Again, some similarities to DF here. Not the trees though. DF has better trees. Also I like the little light throwing effect, though there should probably be shadows from the trees. Can’t have everything though. Spacebar is useless, by the way. As this is a rougelike, everything happens in turns and so spacebar does not appear to serve a purpose. I guess this lends credence to the theory that it’s an alpha, or at least incomplete. Anyway, I don’t know what I’m doing so let’s try ‘attack’.
My bow? Yeah, let’s go with that.
The arrow moved too fast for me to take a picture, unfortunately.
Annoying Arrows is once again subverted it seems. The wolf dies, and I appear to have won. It took me a little bit to work out what to do next (and the fire flashes from red to yellow and back every time I make time move for a bit by walking around, by the way), but I eventually realize you just type ‘travel’ again. Back to the travel screen and on to that city with the vaguely Aztec-like name!
Hey, that’s a nice touch. Anyway, we’ve arrived.
Oo, Impressive. By the way, saving is handled by typing in save then typing in the name the save file is under when prompted, then you can call it up with load <savefile name>. Standard stuff, really. I admit, I have no idea what to do here, so I’m going to type ‘help’. It might help me find out who made the game, too.
Okay, what? Are you intentionally trying to creep me out, game? I typed that into Google, by the way. Everything beyond the ‘tis part is a Shakespeare quote (apart from the ‘and forever it shall be so’) and I can’t make head or tails of it. It doesn’t even seem to fit the situation that well. On the next page -
Okay fuck. I’m writing this review in real time because the game doesn’t run in real time and the next line freaked the hell out of me.
Hey, whoever made this game? Fuck you. I wanted a rougelike, not a mindscrew. I’m not so sure I want to see where this game is going with this. I’m not totally sure I want to keep playing at all if this game going into full High Octane Nightmare Fuel mode is going to be a reoccurring thing.
Either way that’s the end of this update. Suggest what we do next as long as it isn’t ‘ask for help’. I’m never typing that again.
You know what? Maybe my hard drive is possessed by demons. The pricks.
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