
April 5, 2008
If you play the game linked in the last post and are getting sick of winning all the god damn time, then perhaps you should sit a spell with Fruit Mystery. Fruit Mystery is a good way to learn about zoo animals, and also fruit, and also about responsibility. It is also a good way to miss JeffK.
(And if I may WEAR THIS STUPID WRITER HAT for a second I think there is something additionally great about games that pipe you directly to an ending despite, more or less, what you actually input into the game itself. If I had read just a little more Anne Lamott this morning I would probably point out that maybe this sort of game is like a really good short story, where you learn the interface and get accustomed to the presentation just long enough for the game to to do you what it had intended, and then leaves you with a whole afternoon where you can go outside and do something. Sort of like getting to meet something really interesting at a party who is moving to Arizona? OK now I am thinking too much.)
