{"id":191,"date":"2008-10-06T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T02:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-10-06T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T02:54:51","slug":"ifcomp-2008-april-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superdoomedplanet.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/ifcomp-2008-april-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2008: April in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This is another Interactive Fiction Competition review <\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

April in Paris<\/cite> is about April. In Paris. You want to know anything else, you can get spoilers past the link. <\/p>\n

April in Paris<\/cite> puts you in a caf\u00e9. In Paris. You’re trying to get the attention of the snooty waiter. Before he will give you a menu you need to steal his tip, sneak the girl you just picked up off the street past the equally snooty hostess, drive off the resident musician, steal a bottle of wine, mooch another patron’s sandwich, inveigle your way into the kitchen, suck up to the chef, and blackmail the waiter.<\/p>\n

So I did. And I asked myself, “Self, why the hell am I doing this?” And there was no answer… because given an entirely mundane setting I think realistically. Realistically, I am not a two-bit con artist, and the first thing I would do in this situation would be to go to another goddamn caf\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And this caf\u00e9 is so<\/em> terribly mundane. There’s not much here that isn’t part of a puzzle. The titular April, your supposed love interest, is nothing more than a prop. (It’s even more obvious coming off of Violet<\/cite>, which pretty quickly managed to make me care about Violet.) There’s not much actually wrong<\/em> with this thing, but as a game, April in Paris<\/cite> is forgettable. As a J. Wellington Wimpy<\/a> simulator, though, it’s great. Nice weather, isn’t it, we’re having?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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