Today I played Alter Ego. This game is the very defenition of the term "Role-Playing Game". Not because you equip weapons and grow levels. But because you actually take on a new role. It's a text based life simulator.
You start the game by taking a personality test, and then you, simply, live your life! Birth to death. The game is presented in a series of decision trees. The game presents you with a scenario and a list of reactions to that scenario. Depending on your answer, the game reacts and changes. You decisions in the game make a real and lasting impact on the game itself. It's honestly facinating, and the first game on the list I've seen do that.
If I had one complaint it's that the game spouts about experimentation, about trying to live life the way YOU want, making the choices you want to make. But if you make a choice the game sees as "bad" it tells you straight up, "you made a bad decision". Way to Guilt trip me out of living my fantasy as a psychopath game!
Next up: Arkanoid
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