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From: tbarrie@cycor.ca (Trevor Barrie)
Subject: Re: Lost New York - A Review
Date: 06 Apr 1996 04:28:18 +0000
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Julian Arnold <jools@arnod.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>This post has a couple of spoilers.

















>I'd disagree a bit with this paragraph.  For example, you drug a man then
>steal his coat!  

Hmmm. You know, it never occurred to me that this might be morally
problematic, probably because Neil managed to make this guy so
thoroughly unsympathetic. Heck, in beta-testing I was complaining
about the fact that I couldn't physically assault him.:)

>Although the drugging isn't fatal you don't know that before
>the event (if you eat the crystals, you die).  

That is a problem.

>Also, you wander into the
>hovel and steal the owner's blanket (one of his very few possessions) 

Well, you can if you want to... unless there's something to do with
the blanket which I haven't figured out, the game doesn't require it.

>and abuse his goat (using the stick-method the abuse is quite severe!).

The description doesn't suggest that the goat is hurt or anything,
though.

>I found it interesting to note that no question was raised about this
>trespassing and theft from the hovel, while trespassing in Jones' Wood was
>not allowed.  One rule for the rich, another for the poor?

This is also problematic, now that I think of it.



