Top : Games : Video Games : Adventure : Text Adventures :
Metamorphoses
Websites
Capsule review by Duncan Stevens, information, and downloads.
site exerpt
Metamorphoses Idealized forms are a key thematic element, and most of the puzzles revolve around the transformation of those forms. The game provides two devices that can transform various objects, and the range and complexity of the transformations handled is impressive--the...Author's page about the game, with background on its making and what she was trying to do with the story.
site exerpt
Metamorphoses Metamorphoses is a game about transformation and aspiration, set somewhere between our own reality and the world of forms. An exercise in simulationist IF, it offers multiple solutions to most puzzles and attempts to model interactions between objects of different...Play the original competition release on-line.
http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?game=288&mode=html
Rated 9.3/10. "At its best (and it usually is), Metamorphoses delivers the transcendent grandeur of graphical powerhouses like Myst, and tinges it with an emotional weight that only text can achieve."
site exerpt
2000 Competition Game Reviews Page 1 I was the perfect audience for this game, or near-perfect anyway. I've seen and enjoyed Being John Malkovich, the film by Spike Jonze. I've hung around the IF scene for a long time. I've played every Plotkin game, even Inhumane....Review of 2000 competition entry. "Haunting little game about change, perfection, and loss. Try it."
site exerpt
Metamorphoses review The solutions usually boil down to relinquishing control of the pace of the story (typically through giving the player puzzles to solve or avoiding/minimizing the puzzle aspect of IF and sending the player through the story with little opportunity to...Play on-line using Java, with links to background, articles about the game, and walkthrough. [Requires frames.]
site exerpt
Annotated Metamorphoses Frames) This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them....