The Missing City Council
Solarius
My expectations for this game were calibrated in the very first room. In the room description, it says ‘You can see a City Hall here.’ ‘A city hall?’ I thought. ‘Maybe…’
>GET CITY HALL
Taken.
[cue giggling.]
Look. It is not the first nor the last time this particular bug has shown up in a .z5 game. I have coded that bug myself many times. The point is that it put me in the right mode to not get upset when, for example:
Office of the Mayor
An office with a desk.You can see a fluffy mat here.
> x desk
Sorry, I don’t understand what “desk” means.
OK, got it. At this point, I was happy to wander around and Only Do Obvious Things, and when I ran out of that, I turned to the walkthrough, which turned out to be a good idea; it turns out that what was obvious to me and what was obvious to the author were very very different.
There were some interesting ideas here, and as all the other reviews are saying, it could use some more implementation and feedback to the hapless player. But, as the author says “You’ve got to start somewhere, right?” Indeed, Solarius. Indeed.
Did the author have anything to say? “You’ve got to start somewhere, right?”
Did I have something to do? Giggle about carrying around the city hall literally every time I took inventory. I have very basic needs.