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Reviews for "Shooting in the Dark"

Well, I will give this game one thing. When you start the game and you press play, it asks you if you are sure you want to continue. If you select No it says "you made the right choice". And indeed the game is correct. The right choice is to not bother playing because inside of the game there are no longer choices to be made, just clicking your way through a story with no options of a child who is driven to violence by video games (on a big screen tv too) kind of not nice Facebook posts and a bully who pushes him.. TWICE!!! and a mean father who may or may not have abused the kid. Fortunately for the kid he lives in a temporal anomaly known to the general public as a game that has more bugs than Lindsay Lohan. I have given this game a fair shot, even with the knowledge that it isn't so much a game as a kind of interactive and boring story, I tried every thing I could think of to finish the game (including cheating with right click), and the dang game keeps looping back on itself. *Update* I kept trying while I was writing this and I was able to finish the "Game" The end of which simply states "You always had a choice" The choice 'of course' being simply not to play the game. And I have to wonder what sort of message the author is trying to put across here? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the author comments, and we don't ever really even see what the kid ultimately did (though we may assume he shot someone. When the stated solution to the problem of the game is the choice not to play and the game is life then would you be advocating suicide as the solution?

I mean, I look at how minor the events were in this game that drove the PC to go for the gun and I think 'what a whinny douche' Good mood to homicide in two days, kid needs help. And maybe not playing the game is the solution for him. But I would suggest psychiatric help. In life you always have a choice. In this game the only choice is play or don't play. If you play it is boring it is uninteresting and it feels like it wants to be preachy but doesn't do it well enough for the message (if there is one) to come across.

Aside from the content I thought the game looked fine. It didn't have really much interactivity and what it did have seemed to be bugged. I didn't really enjoy this and I can't say I would recommend it to anyone, even as a laugh. 1.5/5 The points given are for effort, graphics, and music (the sound was meh).

Not bad. Concept is good and the story is actually pretty immersive. Music wasn't incredibly annoying but a mute button wouldn't go a miss. Also, there wasn't really an ending, the fact you just go back to the previous screen and you can't do anything doesn't really make any sense. But overall an enjoyable game, very thought provoking - good job! :)

NessSuccess responds:

There is an ending, you experienced a bug, of which there are many. I'm working on fixing all of them and i'll update the swf when I do. Thanks for the review.

I get that you are trying to be artistic, but that it no excuse for the game to be mostly broken.

I was expecting quite a different ending, but I guess it's better this way, it has deeper meaning and makes you think. I liked how you were and were not able to choose what to do next, in real life it's kinda the same. Arguing about video games making people violent is absurd, if it was true, I would as well get violent from watching a movie, reading a book, seeing a cat kill a mouse. No one wants to kill people *just* because he played a FPS - as you said, it's mainly because the ambient we live in.

Nice game, well done.