Sadly as I hate to bite my tongue, I have to say this was amazing. I was expecting to find a subpar Legend of Zelda in stupid static CYOA medium, but what I found instead was an incredibly smooth web-based text-only Scumm game. No parser, but there’s a simulation there indeed, puzzles, items, stats etc. Felt incredibly like certain IF like Walker & Silhouette or Blue Lacuna. I’d even go as further as saying it’s more flexible: while in these games you just type the highlighted word, here you choose a tool (a verb) from the menu and clicking on the highlighted word, producing different results. Much clever, that surely is not CYOA of old, more like parserless IF…
Undum, that’s a name to be reckoned with for sure.
hmm, perhaps I should revise the message I just posted about the future of XYZZY Awards…