Written by Michael
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| Guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue... |
Welcome back to the saga of the Ladies of Daventry! This installment is rather short compared to the last two, so let us get to it.
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| What does a newt say when you catch it in a lie? I amphibian. |
When we last were with the queen, she had entered the cave behind the Aztec-looking door, and was confronted with a large lizard of some type blocking her in the passageway.
by Will Moczarski
When I started playing Pepper's Adventures in Time for the blog (way back when) I singled out the manual as a true labour of love. I stand by my assessment. However, I also remarked: "This is beginning to sound like work, or worse - school." And if I ask myself the pertinent question: was the game fun and did it meet its goal of teaching me something as well? I'm not sure what to answer. Did I learn something? Yes, lots of trivia. Would I have learned more had I known next to nothing about US history? Possibly but...the game tends to work sort of like an old-school museum. The "TRUTH" button is a stand-in for reading the plaques, and you learn a lot about the artifacts but not so much about the broader strokes of history. Your mileage may vary but I felt that a kid playing Pepper will pick up a lot of tidbits and facts which means that the most absurd ones will probably stand out and continue to linger in the back of their head. The game is edutaining, but is it educational? I doubt it.
On the other hand, TAG regular Vetinari claims he learned a lot about history when he played Pepper around the time of its release. Maybe I'm wrong but the TRUTH button sure felt a bit like the Neuschwanstein episode in Gabriel Knight 2 at some point - I fear it belongs in a museum.
But we're not here to rank a game based on its educational merit but rather to see how it fares with our six PISSED categories. Let's do that instead of waxing didactic, shall we?
Written by MenhirMike
Last time, we burgled a Kiosk and stole 380 pound sterling worth of loot. But let’s travel back in time and explore what I could have done differently, because the game actually offers alternate approaches.
First, I could have gone to the Hotel and said that I reserved a room under the name Mark Goldberg, who is apparently a millionaire. Doing so gets me into the hotel room, but without getting Gludo’s identification card - I do not know what the ID card is useful for, so I have no idea if this is a good or bad thing.
Another option would’ve been to go to the police station and insult Gludo instead, which gets me kicked out without the 10 pounds, but with the identification card. Since I don’t have money for a hotel room, I eventually ended up at Cars & Vans, where a Mr Danner thinks I’m a relative of Sir Henry of Yorkshire and insists on giving me 20 pounds. So this gives me both the ID card and an extra 10 pounds.
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| Excuse my French. |
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| 20 bucks is 20 bucks… |
Written by Michael
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| I haven’t had lasagna since last Christmas. It’s been too long. |
Remember when we first started this game, and mother and daughter were separated? Rosella was stolen away by a hand that looks like it belongs to a cartoon dog named Spike.
So we head off to chapter 2. Something about trolls.
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| Let's see where we'll land |
