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by Bananadine 03/06/2010, 4:58pm PST |
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I gave up on The King of Shreds and Patches and eventually turned to another Cthulhu-y game, Anchorhead. That one is highly rated, and I got about halfway through it without major cheating, and mostly enjoyed doing that although a few stupid things annoyed me along the way, which seems almost inevitable in text adventures because text adventures are very hard to test well and so I guess nobody actually tests them well ever. But then I got stuck so badly that even the walkthrough couldn't help, because the absurdly obscure thing I'd been supposed to do to unlock a particular lock was no longer possible. BUT then I realized that in Windows Frotz you can more or less just paste a walkthrough into the game window and it'll accept line breaks as if they were depressions of the Enter key, so I just spoiled the rest of the game by doing that, because I don't enjoy these games enough to interpose forum conversations into them and consider that to be a part of the experience (but thanks anyway, ICJ, for the info re: that).
Speaking of ICJ, I am bemused to realize that Necrotic Drift is the only sizable text adventure I've ever played that I still liked after having finished with it! It was funny, it wasn't too fussy, it didn't try too hard to be aaaaaaart.
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WHAT DOES THIS LATCH LOOK LIKE HOW DOES IT WORK WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH IT by Bananadine 02/16/2010, 2:59pm PST 
WHAT IS THIS ROWBOAT CRAP by Bananadine 02/16/2010, 5:29pm PST
Ah okay by Bananadine 02/16/2010, 5:40pm PST
now I'm really stuck (maybe) by Bananadine 02/20/2010, 6:28pm PST
This is frustrating by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/20/2010, 7:22pm PST
Re: This is frustrating by Bananadine 02/20/2010, 8:46pm PST
oh yeah I meant to play this by jeep 02/20/2010, 9:07pm PST
Re: This is frustrating by kings of patches etc 05/22/2010, 4:11pm PDT
I think that's what finally stopped me too! NT by Bananadine 05/22/2010, 4:43pm PDT
Re: I think that's what finally stopped me too! by kings of patches etc 05/22/2010, 6:41pm PDT
Probably not (I don't remember) NT by Bananadine 05/22/2010, 8:34pm PDT
Re: This is frustrating by kings of patches etc 05/22/2010, 6:38pm PDT
stuck for good by Bananadine 02/24/2010, 9:16am PST
Re: stuck for good by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/24/2010, 10:21am PST
Postscript by Bananadine 03/06/2010, 4:58pm PST
Re: Postscript by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/06/2010, 9:00pm PST
Re: Postscript by Bananadine 03/06/2010, 11:26pm PST
Automated testing would be a lot easier than that for a text game. by Fullofkittens 03/07/2010, 6:46am PST
Re: Automated testing would be a lot easier than that for a text game. by Bananadine 03/07/2010, 7:28am PST
Re: Automated testing would be a lot easier than that for a text game. by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/07/2010, 1:04pm PST
Randomness by Fullofkittens 03/07/2010, 1:15pm PST
"manually" should have said "normally" (We need edit buttons and logins) NT by Fullofkittens 03/07/2010, 1:19pm PST
Re: Postscript by kings of patches etc 05/22/2010, 6:55pm PDT
Re: now I'm really stuck (maybe) by Unknown 05/29/2012, 4:52pm PDT
Isn't this the Derek Smart forum? NT by the obvious joke 03/07/2010, 5:46am PST
I read this for the first time because of the bump. I thought this game was NT by about '80s lead guitar. -FSBT 05/23/2010, 1:50am PDT
Re: THE LATCH by Misha 01/05/2012, 4:45pm PST
Re: THE LATCH by Misha 01/05/2012, 4:50pm PST
As a doornail NT by Entropy Stew 01/05/2012, 4:53pm PST
IN BED! NT by that guy 01/05/2012, 5:11pm PST
Update on my progress! by Bananadine 01/05/2012, 5:58pm PST
EXAMINE SEARCH by USE LATCH ON SEARCH 01/06/2012, 1:09am PST
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