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Choose Your Own Romance

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Review by Underdogs:
Choose Your Own Romance is a very clever and well-written entry in Storme Winfield's Romance Novel Comp 2002 which drew only two – but two outstanding – entries, whose results were announced on Valentine’s Day, appropriately enough. Emily Short says it all about this highly entertaining, appropriately “florid” piece of romance novel:

”Created with Jon Ingold's Adventure Book, CYOR offers the reader the opportunity to steer its strangely-fated heroine through the various twists and turns of Love. As sheer coincidence would have it, a nontrivial percentage of these twists are in some way associated with cheeses. But I'm sure that's entirely accidental. To proceed:

As might be supposed to befit a choose your own romance, this work is whimsical and light; its chiefest grace is the delightsome prose, which blends to a nicety the modest mannerisms of speech appropriate to a refined lady with the strength of feeling that will inevitably engender itself in the breast-- er, upper torso-- of a Person of Romantic Temperament. To say more of the plot would be to reveal overmuch, if plot it may accurately be said to have; for like many of its ilk, Choose Your Own Romance is narratively wayward and frolicsome.

In short, a highly entertaining piece. This will scarcely surprise those familiar with Mr. Dyte's previous work in the field of parody (Sycamora Tree, Pick Up the Phone Booth And Aisle [for the concept of which, at least, he is to be blamed, even if other rash parties partook of its implementation]).” Two thumbs up, way up!

Average Rating:7 [38 votes]
Genre:Interactive Fiction
Designer:David Dyte
Developer:Freeware
Publisher:Freeware
Year:2002
Software Copyright:David Dyte
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System Requirements:Inform
If you like this game, try:Desert Heat, Pytho's Mask, Plundered Hearts
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