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From: Matthew Murray <i9717029@wsunix.wsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Suspended-- Infocom's greatest disappointment?
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On 13 May 1996, Stephane Racle wrote:

> : 'special skills' were.  Iris was crippled at the beginning of the game
> : for no reason other than making a puzzle (I mean, there hadn't been a
>
> Well, it's not very difficult: Auda hears (ex: listening to the humans),
> Iris sees (ex: the camera), Sensa senses (ex: tremors), Waldo graps
> (mechanical/carrying), Poet touches (ex: fixing robots, manipulating
> delicate equipment), and Whiz can plug himself into computers. I used all
> the skills from every robot. As for Iris, why does there need to be a
> reason for her being broken? Nothing wrong with just accepting it. You
> could begin to question everything in the game too: why not six robots
> that can all see, hear, touch, etc? Anyways, she could have had an
> accident, remember, nobody used them for years and years.

	Absolutely.  In fact, I think you practically have to use each of
the robots to finish the game.  Whiz, is, I think, the only exception, but
he can definitely be helpful.  Each one of them is useful, and I disagree
with the original message, too.  A good game with a really neat idea that
I think worked.

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