GAME: Diary Of A Stripper
AUTHOR: Christopher Cole
PLATFORM: ADRIFT 3.9 http://www.adrift.org.uk/cgi/new/adrift.cgi
SOUND: no
GRAPHICS: no
REVIEWED: 26th July 2003
WALKTHROUGH: n/a
DOWNLOAD: http://www.shadowvault.net/games/diarystrip.taf



A difficult game to comment on. It wasn't "quite" as explicit as I'd first thought it was going to be but then again it was hardly a game for the easily offended either.

Playing the part of a male stripper, it is your job to… er, entertain a number of lady guests at a birthday party. Storyline-wise that’s about it.

The writing was good throughout but the gameplay side really let things down. For the most part there was no real freedom of movement and you seemed to be forced along a very set path; no chance to explore the game was given or any proper interaction with the characters was possible. There was also the added frustration of being given half the commands you needed to complete the game instead of figuring them out for yourself which pretty defeated the whole point of playing for me. Admittedly, most of these commands were non-obvious and I might never have figured them out on my own, but it seemed a strange game that actually tells you what you should be typing. A few subtle hints would have worked better.

Game: 4 out of 10