![]() ![]() And it uses maybe five colours? Six? It's a gimmick, but it's an unfussy, simple-to-play-with gimmick.īuilt on top of it is a story about a kingdom, "small and queer", in which the residing titular Pepper Prince is due to be married. But I can't remember a time it's been used for a point-and-click adventure before ("Fnarr that's because you don't know about the Amiga game 'ASCII And You Shall Receive' released only in Gibraltar for one afternoon in the future." - Inevitable Reader), and it all looks rather sweet.Ĭharacters are represented by a capital letter, backgrounds and buildings are built from punctuation, and items are lower case text. Obviously we know entire universes can be built from text art alone, as adequately demonstrated by the 1980s. Oh, OK, and the fact that despite being very cute, it's 45 minutes long and without challenge.įirst and foremost: the ASCII thing works. This is the dilemma I face when attempting a coherent position on my opinions of The Pepper Prince: Seasoning 1, the first in an episodic adventure series created entirely from ASCII art. ![]() ![]() ![]() On one hand, there's the excruciatingly bad poetry. ![]()
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