https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream_(video_game)
I remember this game really affecting me, particularly because I got a bad ending and didn't realize it has multiple endings.
Highly recommended if you like adventure games.
The story it's based on is, of course, fantastic too.
How did this game feel to others?
I never knew that was the original author. The game and the book are just an awful (in a good way) experience that left me feeling so gross and hopeless after.
Harlan Ellison narrated the audiobook, and he hammed it up so much when delivering the AM lines (in a good way) that there was really no one else who could have voiced the role in the game by the time it was developed.
The best part about the game is that Ellison also wrote the script and dialogue for it.
I’m pretty sure that the game has a slightly different ending to the book, as well. I didn’t know he did both. Very few things have made me feel as uncomfortable and unsettled as the book/game.
The game has several different possible endings depending on your choices. The short story of course has only one ending: very depressing one that is the title of the story.
That I did know. I played through a few of them and each of them were as bad (in a good way) as the others. I think evoking that type of emotional response was the idea of the series, book and game, however. They’re not meant to give you good feelings, but cause conflicting emotions.
Stellar series, like I said before. Absolutely enjoyed it.
One of the few near perfect adaptations of a short story or novel into a game. Harlan Ellison was notoriously difficult to work with at times, but this one they were able to do a great job.
Whenever i hear this line, it reminds me of some comic I saw years ago where people get sucked into a mountain and become monsters. Not sure why
Soo they didn’t get sucked in, they were drawn in and couldn’t resist, and rather than becoming monsters the shape of their bodies was deformed. It really hits Junji Ito’s delicate balance of too silly to be taken seriously, while deeply unsettling at the same time.
I haven't played the game, but it is a series that has been incredibly fascinating to me.
At least with the book, the thing that I find most haunting is the permanence of Ted's body alterations. Your form being forever changed against your will is absolutely disturbing.