Out of the five scenarios the survivors are put through, Ted's especially stands out as cheesy and video-gamey.
Made all the worse by her annoying voice actress, welp.
At some points it's decent, while at some others I'm taken aback at "how someone who's been tortured for over a century can be this nonchalant and flippant about ". It's not a new trick, but again, I think using music to the atmosphere's advantage wasn't commonly as figured out in vidya when the game initially released.
I liked how each character had their unique theme and sound effects for success/failure, and when you played as them again in the final chapter, it automatically gave a feeling of familiarity and finality. Music and sound effects were alright, especially for its time (1995). Not a lot of that thankfully, but some for sure. For the most part it wasn't super frustrating, but there were a couple moments where man had to resort to using everything on everything, or pixel hunt with the cursor until a small clump of pixels turned out to be interactable. It's a point-and-click adventure, with all of the good and bad that entails. Maybe he changed his mind about some details, or wanted to explore some what-if alternatives. Since Harlan Ellison was directly involved in the project though, I can only imagine it's with his blessing. A bit alternative universe perhaps, because while in most aspects it plays/expands upon ideas from the novel more directly, in a few it seems to take some liberties with changing things a bit here and there. I like to think of it as non-canon/semi-canon "DLC" to the original novel. In the game, AM puts each of them through their own scenario built around their personal flaws and emotional baggage, and after all five are successfully completed, they all connect into the final sixth scenario. Fuelled by nothing but loathing for its creators, it keeps the last five living people basically immortal and endlessly tortures them for 100+ years. In it, an artificial intelligence known as AM gained sentience and all but swept humanity away. A video game based on a 1967 novel by Harlan Ellison by the same title.
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