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I enjoy text-based adventures. The idea that there are no graphics and everything is described in such detail, so as to entice the player to see the setting for themselves, is what makes me love them more than any other genre of game. They’re basically like playing a choose your own adventure book. It was this love for text-based adventures that got me in the mess I’m in.

A few weeks ago, I decided to replay one of my favorite text-based adventures, Zork. The complexity of the game when I first tried it out in Middle school, however, was lost. The nostalgia factor, though, that was still alive. Sadly, it didn’t keep me interested for long. I went to google and started searching for mods that fans had made. Download after download produced mediocre copies and shoddy story lines that couldn’t keep me hooked like my treasured Zork. As I was giving up hope, I ran across a game called The Laughing Man. Thinking it was a fan game based on the Ghost in the Shell terrorist, I downloaded it to see how it would play out. What I played, however, had nothing to do with Ghost in the Shell.