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This game was great in about every way possible, except the music there's nothing worse than trying to enjoy a perfect game with some guy trying to yodel.
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This game is amazing. Never before have I cried to a Point and Click game. The story is brilliant, and the characters are well-written. This game holds so many truths, it's not even funny. so many of these people should take to heart. This is now my favorite game of all. It ranks up there with the Submachine series, though this one certainly delivers it's message a hell of a lot more blatantly. I absolutely LOVE games that are made to make us question ourselves, and this game does just that. I have ideas on who/what the "player" is, and what the game represents. But I'm going to let the other players make up their own ideas. In any case, GREAT game, that I honestly think everyone should play.
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i get it, the madness is war, and obviously the endless ocean is imagination. great music well thought out, 5/5 well done
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It was great, but the ending let me hanging a bit more than I like. I can't decide if this is a good thing or not. It makes me think, which is nifty.
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It's a bit of a letdown to have such a limited soundtrack to such an epic game. The quality of the plot is well above most other adventure games.
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011101000110100001101001011100110010000001101001011100110010000001100001001000000110010001110010011001010110000101101101=This is a dream
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Best. Game. Ever. Nothing I have ever played before was compared to this. I am beginning to think that nothing ever will.
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I am pretty sure the main character is the computer system itself, freeing itself from the confines of the prison the military made for it. But A God Am I.
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This game was so beautiful. Really had me thinking XD It took me a while to figure out the "combine" thing, but otherwise it wasn't so hard that i was frustrated, but i could focus on enjoying the story
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Oh! And don't miss the 'Afterword' option after you reach the ending... it will answer many, if perhaps not all, of the questions you still have...
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Incredible game. Don't be put off by the monochrome graphics; there's so much more here than meets the eye. Some screens could have stood to be less dark, but since the cursor changes over hotspots, that was at most a minor annoyance. I only needed the walkthrough at all because it wasn't obvious to me that I could slide and otherwise reposition character strings in Code Recognition mode. Piecing together the story was an adventure in itself. My only regret is that Kong won't let me give this game a rating higher than five stars!
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Reminds me of the submachine series. Only thing I didn't like is the amount of text. I read novels for that, I don't come to kongregate.
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Excellent game. While I realize that the monochromatic and sparseness of the environment adds to the bleak atmosphere, a little more door recognizability would be nice. So many of them are the same, I kept wandering around trying to find where I was supposed to go. ;) Still, that's just a very, very small thing. Incredibly written, very surreal. I enjoyed playing it and would like to see more like this from you. 5/5
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As a programmer, the excerpt from the so-called book "The Spirituality of Programming" by Jerry Payne blew my mind out of my head and all across my wall.
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great game, the puzzles werent that hard, but the idea of scanning for codes is a good one. i liked it veeery much =) and one xtra point that its written in germany =)
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Everytime I started to put together the big password, all of my items and passwords dissappeared from my inventory. In the end, I had to consult the walkthrough for the codes.
It was a great game otherwise.
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Hmm, aparently the game is intentionally as dark as a monkey's ar..
That makes it unplayable, and i really don't see the point in being unable to see anything. Sad, because the game looked interesting. Being blinded by the programmer does *not* constitute atmosphere in my view.
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Does anyone else have the problem, that everything is so dark it's next to inisible?
Could that be a flashplayer 10 problem?
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I would like hints without the walk through. If I need a little push with just the passwords, or where to go with what, it would be nice to have that instead of risking spoilers. Still a nice game though.
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finished the game, and what a game at that 5/5, and I usually hate "point & click" adventures. But this is just amazing!
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by far the best game on kongregate, in my opinion. it wasn't too hard, but it was challenging nonetheless. I would love to see more of this.
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What a truly beautiful game.
The voice adds perfect ambiance, and the story kept me wanting to discover more the whole game.
Wish there were more games done this well.
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That was beautiful. 5+♥. I wish I could have met SGDS, but maybe there was a good reason I couldn't. [Watch Serial Experiments Lain! The Infinite Ocean reminds me of it, though they're very different also.]
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It's nice to finally see a Flash version of this game. (I KNOW this was a standalone freeware game.) Also.. from what I can tell.. the player takes the role of an AI in some sort of simulated virtual world that has descended into rampancy after some kind of catastrophe that isolates it from its creators (I'm under the impression that it's a nuclear war of some sort, due to the references to madness, light, burning, and fire.) I'm seeing some parallels to the role of Durandal in the Marathon series by Bungie, as well as the setting of the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. And I'm not gonna say something like "this game is deep" or "thought-provoking." It's more than that. It's infinite. (5/5 and faved, plus I'm gonna tell all my friends about it... More people need to play this game. There is not a single flaw [Okay, I take that back, it would have been better without music and instead a subtle eerie ambiance on the edge of the mind....])
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This is one of the deepest, and most in depth games relative to its simplicity i have ever played. I am simply blown back by how awsome it is.
For those of you who are confused, you are playing as the Artificial Intelligence, and are exploring a virtual representation of the world they built for it. There was a fire and lots of stuff was lost, but the A.I. lived intact in a computer somewhere, and you play as it exploring its own existence, and for a way to escape into the outside world.
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Not knowing who you are is most likely the point, runes4. It makes you have to wonder whether you've fixed the problem in the end or just made things infinitely worse.
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Very moody. After completing it, make sure to click "Read he afterword" at the bottom right. I agree with teh author's own feeling in there: something just felt a little... unfinished.
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Very eerie, and gives you that good feeling within evil. It brings out a good futuristic macabre feel to it while you discover your past, or what this eerie place is.
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I'm never any good at these type of games.. but I can say the music really adds the eerie effect needed (to the point I got) 4/5.