80 Days Reviews

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Play, not to win, but for the sake of playing.

“Inkle Studios imagines a next-gen Choose Your Own Adventure in 80 Days, a hypertext riff on the novel Around the World in 80 Days.”

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Another criticism of mine is that it takes roughly 2 and half hours to complete a run around the globe. It’s quite a lengthy amount of time for something that may simply fall apart one city away from the finish line. Even when you are three quarters around the world it is very hard to ascertain whether you will make it or not, which keeps things tense, but may prove frustrating for some.

I completed my first circumnavigation of the Earth in just over 80 Days' time limit, but only barely. If we hadn’t taken a boat headed for Hawaii, if I didn’t gamble with the ship's engines by pushing them to the brink of explosion, perhaps I could have made it. I eagerly started again immediately, with a whole new set of text-based adventure decisions -- Fogg’s enthusiasm, and 80 Days’ absence of punishment or actual sense of failure, had me excited to do it all over again. I had a spectacular, unforgettable adventure story to show for my three-hour adventure, and couldn’t wait to learn more about the world, its characters, and the human desire to discover.