More a vacation reel than a game, this is a cute formative adventure by the people who later went on to make the excellent The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. A lonely needy man desperately pursues a potential romantic tryst with a woman who seems too eager to be true.

The plot resolution you had in your head while playing is probably better than what the game actually has in store, but it's still an intriguing (and surprisingly bloody) short game with endearingly simple digitized sprites and all the gameplay quirks you'd expect from a first attempt at development (many screens contain nothing at all, some require walking to the edges to make them scroll to reveal an exit, so much so the game needs to warn you of it, etc)

Worth a playthrough for the twenty minutes it lasts.

Reviewed on Oct 22, 2022


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