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| Direct link | Add a comment I cannot, without revealing entirely too much about this game, explain to you just what it was that had me raving about this game for two days afterwards, including randomly piping up with a particular rant that would, again, spoil things. Let me just assure you that this is the case: for two days, I was so haunted by this game that it was constantly in my head, teasing me... waiting for me in the darkness. In the shadows.
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| Direct link | Add a comment >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction Quite simply, it blew me away. Not only that, it's one of those games that I wanted to restart right after I'd finished, just to try different things. When I did this, even more details came together in my head. Even now, little pieces are snapping together in my mind, and I'm getting flashes of realization about the meanings behind the meanings of so many of the game's elements. Few parts of the IF experience are as startling or as pleasurable.
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| Direct link | Add a comment - Amun100 (UK), July 25, 2022 - DAzebras, June 23, 2022 - rowan.du, April 30, 2022 - JohnK, April 12, 2022 - The Dalek, March 5, 2022 - beeeeeebop (Colorado, USA), February 22, 2022 3 of
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A hard one to review, February 19, 2022by JonathanCR It's clear from looking through these reviews that this is a rather divisive game. Praised greatly by most - including the "editorial reviews" (which always seem especially weighty from their prominence in games' entry pages) - there's a significant minority of reviewers who don't like it, including one or two who really hate it. A smaller minority sit somewhere in the middle, liking it well enough, but not greatly so. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A good but potentially frustrating short story, January 28, 2022by Cody Gaisser (Florence, Alabama, United States of America, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Known Universe, ???) I don't know that I have much to add that hasn't been said before about Shade: Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Tight, well-crafted piece of short IF, November 8, 2021by ccpost (Greensboro, North Carolina) Playing through Shade felt like reading a finely-crafted short story. The game environment is small, though precisely described so that each detail is striking and rich with information -- nothing extraneous. The work is focused in on a particular theme, and develops this theme deliberately and effectively. The imagery is evocative, though narrowly centering on a particular motif (Spoiler - click to show)(sand! and more sand!!). Like the best works of short fiction, Shade can be experienced in a relatively brief session, though it leaves a powerful impression that stays in the reader's head long afterward. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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