Let's play I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream [BLIND] #5 - Shifting blame = redemption, huh?

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Published on May 17, 2020 9:00:21 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1HUJgVdioI

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995)

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Duration: 39:18

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This is a blind, first time let's play of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, based on a short story by Harlan Ellison with the same name. It's only my second point-and-click adventure game, so I get stuck from time to time, but try to seriously speed up the worst of it.
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My let's play of Sanitarium [BLIND], first point-and-click I played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QM112ONK_0&list=PLp4TpsJ7HUWVvbaHwHi9MNEzeQNJsYWpE

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Timestamps:
03:45 - 12:00 - I get really confused by logistics of Gorrister's family history and his current scenario and try to unravel it in my head
22:00 - 26:50 - I get rather annoyed by the pointlessness and nonsensical nature of Gorrister's supposed "redemption" arc, so I ramble about it a little
36:55 - 39:18 - I once again reiterate my thoughts on the Gorrister scenario

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a 1995 point-and-click adventure game developed by Cyberdreams and The Dreamers Guild, co-designed by Harlan Ellison and published by Cyberdreams. The game is based on Ellison's short story of the same title. It takes place in a dystopian world where a mastermind artificial intelligence named “AM” has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, whom he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years by constructing metaphorical adventures based on each character's fatal flaws. The player interacts with the game by making decisions through ethical dilemmas that deal with issues such as insanity, rape, paranoia, and genocide.

Ellison wrote the 130-page script treatment himself alongside David Sears, who decided to divide each character's story with their own narrative. Producer David Mullich supervised The Dreamers Guild's work on the game's programming, art, and sound effects; he commissioned film composer John Ottman to make the soundtrack. The game was released on October 31, 1995 and was a commercial failure, though it received critical praise. Its French and German releases were censored due to Nazi themes and the game was restricted for players under the age of 18.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream won an award for "Best Game Adapted from Linear Media" from the Computer Game Developers Conference. Computer Gaming World gave the game an award for "Adventure Game of the Year", listed it as #134 on their "150 Games of All Time” and named it one of the "Best 15 Sleepers of All Time". In 2011, Adventure Gamers named it the “69th-best adventure game ever released.”

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