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Cursor  Member Reviews - The PK Girl

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  Must be played with ADRIFT 4, Tue 27th Aug 2013
By Lumin - See all my reviews

This is a game that well deserves its reputation as a classic, but I feel it's important to point out that (though it's not mentioned on the download page) it was written using an older version of ADRIFT, and attempting to play it in the newest one will have you running into the same problem the previous reviewer (kittykitty) did and more.

I repeat, the game --is not-- playable using the ADRIFT 5 runner, you need to download ADRIFT 4 to experience it properly.


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  (Played in Adrift 4 Runner - not completable with Adrift 5 Runner), Sat 6th May 2023
By Denk - See all my reviews

First, do not play this game with Adrift 5 interpreters because they are not fully compatible with Adrift 4 games so the game may appear to work but it cannot be completed in Adrift 5 Runner due to low compatibility.

But if you play with Adrift 4 Runner, everything works well, at least on my system (graphics, music etc). Works also well with e.g. Gargoyle though you must type: GLK ABBREVIATIONS OFF

Otherwise the parser will cause problems at one point.

On to the game: This is a great sci-fi game, with some nice puzzles. I don't care much for the dating sim element but you can just ignore that and focus on the sci-fi story. It is well implemented compared to many Adrift 4 games. However, if at some point you can't choose "c", try to type "c." or "c," instead - only a problem for multi-interpreters if you did not type GLK ABBREVIATIONS OFF.


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  Pretty pictures, but everything else is annoying, Mon 8th Aug 2011
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I said it elsewhere, I've never understood the appeal of this game. Personally, I think "A Party to Murder," which came out in the same competition, was better. I say "I never understood the appeal" and not "this game sucks" because I know there are others out there who must have seen something in it-- thus its placing 6th in IFComp. And maybe I'm seeing it differently because the rifts of time blah blah blah and "you youngsters never appreciate" yadda yadda, but it seemed to me to be a slow-moving, misogynistic mess with a confused plot written (somewhat poorly) for middle schoolers. That said, I've also never finished it, but I didn't feel like I had a lot of incentive to do so.

**While my comments on the game's content stand, I have re-evaluated my star rating for The PK Girl based on two factors.

1) The Official ADRIFT rating system is different than my own, and I would still call this work "Good" rather than "Average" amongst ADRIFT games-- it definitely stands out.

2) Despite my thoughts on it, do I think this game deserves to be up there representing ADRIFT's capabilities? Yes, as few other games do all that this one does.

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