8/12/2019 Diabolical pack
About This GameStart practicing your evil laugh! As the world's greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.)"Diabolical" is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Famous, feared, or filthy rich—why not all three? You've got the money and the motives to build an evil empire worthy of the most ruthless villain the world has ever seen. Crush the good guys and terrorize the populace! Stamp a big red "FAIL" on your enemies' foreheads! Plunder your way to world domination – or sit back and pet your kitty while your henchmen do it for you. Will you be a high-tech daredevil, a ruthless military soldier, or an apparition terrifying to behold? What calling card will you leave at the scene of your crimes? Whatever your choices, the results will be diabolical.
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This story doesn't take itself seriously and, if you want to enjoy it, you shouldn't either. You're in for a cartoony romp with a straightforward plot and lots and lots of deus ex machina if you play this game. I didn't enjoy as much as I thought I might but that was likely because I went in with the wrong attitude but I'm certain many people would find its silly and irreverent tone to be quite entertaining as long as they were aware of it before getting in too deep.. Do I like Diabolical? Yes, absolutely, but it's not a game that I could ever recommend. The writing is good, entertaining, and occasionally funny, but all too often the game railroads you into different choices. You'll be given a list of options, but the response will almost always be "He isn't really listening" or "You thought I was serious?" What feel like major decisions are quickly made irrelevant by randomly changing circumstances, and you never get the chance to truly direct your villain. The character decides their own overarching goal or plan, and you pick the specifics, which seems to me to be the opposite of what one would want from a game like this. Diabolical can be fun, but it doesn't offer nearly as much choice as you would want from a text-based game.. I can't recommend this game, because of the lack of player agency especially in action scenes. Screenbits - Screen Recorder download for pc in parts
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