Sprung game

Some decisions will actually stop the mission with a screeching halt to a "game over" screen, while some branches actually reward players with what's known as a "Golden Line.

At the very least, the writers push the limits of the Teen rating with uncensored "a--hole" namecalling and the hint at homosexual and bisexual encounters in several of the games dating "missions. No lines are spoken, though, and with so much noiseless yammering back and forth these characters do, the game unfortunately feels like an interactive silent movie more than it does an adventure design.

Sprung has a "fun" style throughout its production, but the entire experience is absolutely, dreadfully dull and unfulfilling. Break down the game to its parts and it's nothing more than a rigid algorithm tree, and even if you don't even read the thousands of lines of text you can poke your way through the dialogue to a "win" situation. The entire design of Sprung is what most other adventure games would consider a side-quest or a mini-game to a much more elaborate production.

It's a bunch of menus that are masquerading in a production that seems to promise more than it can ever dream on delivering. Let's just hope that real-life dating never gets as boring as this Nintendo DS title.

By Craig Harris Updated: 24 Nov pm. Years ago adventure games were nothing more than screens full of words and the challenge was to say or do the correct, prescripted action in order to advance further into the plot.

Zork , Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Wishbringer were all the rage back in the day. Since the programmers didn't have too much in the way of visual capabilities to work with back then, the focus was on a compelling story that would keep gamers occupied until the very end. As hardware capabilities increased, the text adventure genre slowly faded into obscurity, and though the classics can be found on anything from Java applications to downloadable cellphone files, these games are really only revisited for novelty's sake.

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:. January February March April May June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Enter. Sprung Gameplay Movie 7. Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 5 out of Mixed: 9 out of Negative: 16 out of For what it is, Sprung dishes out a worthwhile and memorable experience that is both entertaining as well as quite funny.

I only wish I had known some of these lines when I was dating. All this publication's reviews Read full review. Nintendo Power.

Since reactions are often unpredictable, you'll have to play through missions several times to reach your goals. So you need to make sure that two people that like each other are not together without you there. You can do this with the selections below. What does that mean, like, smells? Except maybe the glasses. You are so money. Or read too much poetry. You digging Alex? What dirty look? In this level you play as Danny and you need to make the right jokes to score with the ladies.

Start out as you want and choose which lady to take with you at the end, the item for the Art Gallery you get depends on this decision. OPTION A1 Use the senctences below to get as much money from Conor as you can. Skip this to get Museum: Five Hundred Bucks! Skip this to get Museum: A Thousand Bucks! Skip this to get Museum: Two Thousand Bucks! Select the Ear Plugs! They developed a vaccine for Herpes Simplex Idiot. Thanks for reminding me! Give it to Conor. Good riddance.

All about running away from you! Ho Bird Mountain? You will get the chance to become a model, but you can also be a waitress. Connected to each profession there are a few specific sections that will not appear in the other story. OPTION 1 Take this route if you want to be a model. I pretty much hate you right now. Get out of my life! Bring on the boys. Sounds fun. Mind if I join you? Select the Texas Flame Hot Sauce! Are you Lucas?

Select Sweatshirt! Danny, right? Excuse me. He got you into this mess! Cheap shot. But you owe me. What do you want to know? I love tearing down the side of a mountain. First choice! Second choice! You must be Danny. Run to the bathroom. Would you get it for me? This is A material! There are a scant amount of "mini-games" for you to contend with, though these really manifest themselves in the form of memory challenges within the dialogue text itself as opposed to being full-on, separate mini-games.

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