now look
if you play Faxanadu
you will find
that it contains neither a fax machine
nor any trace of a ‘can-do’ attitude
despite the title
which clearly promises some combination of these two elements
I would have even settled
for the two promised elements presented all on their own,
serially,
with no hint of combination or collaboration between the two promised elements
nothing doing
you really gotta wonder
‘bout the people
who worked so hard
coming up with such a clever title
that clearly promises a fax machine and a ‘can-do’ attitude
most likely in some form of combination
the very title
Faxanadu
is so clearly a combination of the two elements under discussion
and we have a game that does not live up to the title
what we get is a cryptic fantasy medievalist wander-maze full of hostility and occulted paths forward,
just try to advance in a speedy fashion,
don’t even bother calling ahead because you can’t,
everything’s in-person,
no communications network,
items and information must be sought out, obtained, and delivered laboriously,
and one can argue that “Hey, there’s your can-do attitude!”
but such an outlook is surely ground down to nothing by the damned wandering tedium,
I disdain every last bit of this,
and I can only wonder
at the depths of disillusionment
those who created the title
must feel
for surely
if it had been up to them
the game would’ve lived up to its title
but no
not a bit
and so we continue to live in a world of shit
-July 2021
