#topware

'The Path'

[MAC / PC] [POLAND] [MAGAZINE] [2009]

There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken. There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die. Six sisters live in an apartment in the city. One by one their mother sends them on an errand to their grandmother, who is sick and bedridden. The teenagers are instructed to go to grandmother's house deep in the forest and, by all means, to stay on the path! Wolves are hiding in the woods, just waiting for little girls to stray. But young women are not exactly known for their obedience, are they? Will they be able to resist the temptations of the forest? Will they stay clear of danger? Can they prevent the ancient tale from being retold?The Path is a game about growing, about changing, about making choices, about accepting the consequences of these choices. A game about playing, and failing, about embracing life, perhaps by accepting death. ~Steam Description

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'Virtual Corporation'

[PC] [GERMANY] [MAGAZINE] [1996]

"Band, a fanfare please: The first voice-controlled adventure awaits under "Win 95" - and the command assignment via the included microphone works perfectly! Otherwise, of course, almost nothing works here… All actions in the smoothly scrolling SVGA locations can be initiated verbally, and the speech recognition doesn't give up even with longer sentences spoken in dialect. If the appeal quickly fades, however, it's because the program has to be "warned" before each such input with a mouse click. And of course because of the barely existent gameplay: According to the instructions, the player is supposed to climb the career ladder in a corporation and catch a murderer along the way. According to the test, however, all he can do is answer multiple-choice questions and play unfunny sub-games (such as "Pong"!) at shareware level. Added to this are the same, very short sound effects, tiring background music, and a few rather static videos played on the office terminals. In short, Virtual Corporation is more of an annoyance than a multimedia revolution, as evidenced by the severely limited save option and the instant screen death for every wrong answer." ~Ole Albers, PC Joker (April 1996, Machine Translation)

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