Text Adventures Suck: Try Gun Mute
My tolerance to text reading in games is extremely low. I always skim & skip in text-heavy games, which makes the Interactive Fiction genre unbearable to me. I never ever finished a text game in my life, and I thought I would never do even if I had its walkthrough printed in large fonts beside me. So I classified the genre as “tedious shit”…
Until I tried Gun Mute.
Gun Mute is a text-only adventure, but it doesn’t have much text. And you’ll have fun. There are only a few verbs, there is no spatial navigation (this is a winner), there is almost no dialog, and in my head, this game has colors. It never happened to me that I remembered a text game as having colors. Which talks wonders of the writing of Pacian, its author.
If you, like me, despise text games, try Gun Mute.
Disclaimer: Please refrain from pointing out that I didn’t play text game X, Y or Z that did I, J, K before Gun Mute. Providence gave me Gun Mute and that’s it.
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I’ve also never really enjoyed text-adventures before. Too tedious to play, I got lost easily, didn’t know what to do and got frustrated.
I found Gun Mute to the be an excellent exception. I enjoyed playing the game and the world it described was really vivid and interesting. The game has character and personality. It made me wonder if there are other excellent and easily approachable text adventures out there that I don’t know about…
By Petri Purho on July 20
I read about this game in a couple of sites but still haven’t played it, I think I will now.
Most IF games are really tedious, full of boring unnecessary descriptions and with their annoying typical movement system (N,S,W,E, WTF?) but there are a few great ones. I recommend Baron and Rameses. Both games are conceptually very interesting and have innovative gameplays (for IF).
BTW, I recommend reading this article by Adam Cadre, I think he really put his finger on all the usual problems with IF that makes it so tedious. http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/12517.html
By Dario on July 24
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