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Astrologaster is an excellent comedy set in the Elizabethan era. It’s full of wit and whimsy: its characters are always introduced with a song, its themes are carefully developed and subverted, its twists are made to be silly and humorous. Boasting some great writing by Katherine Neil, the game more than makes up for its simple visual design.
The protagonist is doctor Simon Forman, a man who doesn’t let boring details like not having a medical license stop him from practicing medicine and calling himself a doctor. Simon uses astrology to help people, seeing in the sky the solution to their various plights. His growing success, however, starts to bother the College of [...]
Zero Time Dilemma, the third and final entry in the thrilling adventure series Zero Escape, has a narrative structure as complex as those of previous games, although it introduces less interesting characters and ends with a couple of questionable twists that don’t survive a retrospective analysis.
The game begins when nine people wake up trapped in a cell and are approached by a mysterious individual – dressed as a plague doctor – who presents himself simply as Zero. Zero informs them that, if they want to live, they must participate in the so-called “Decision Game” and starts the first round by throwing a coin up in the air: if they can guess the result, they will [...]