Guess the Roman Number (1-500)

Post date: 17-Feb-2016 20:29:06

Game by: Simon Ferré

Reviewed by: Gabriele Amore

Well well well here is my very first review for a crap game: how thrilling! In fact this is my very first review for any game whatsoever (well, if you don’t consider those I wrote for my own games a while ago) and from the look of it (boy it is harder than I anticipated) it might very well be the last one in a long while.

Anyway, ”Guess the roman number”, so here it goes. Simon couldn’t have done a better job to get me back to my school years during the latin class hours: the same dizziness, confusion and uneasiness. Something like what you experience when your undershirt comes out your pants in a wet Winter school morning. In other words, this is truly the work of an (evil) genius. Just have a look at the presentation screen:

Are you still complaining about how eye-watering is the color scheme of our new website? I have been squinting for about XV minutes at the screen in my emulator to try to figure out the instructions. And I don’t even dare to think about how this must look on real hardware!

Anyway after some additional X or XII minutes I finally felt confident and ready for the real game:

Looks familiar? Well I bet it does: Simon did make no effort to make your game experience any easier (or varied) by having the font to stick up a bit. Good job! This looks exactly as fuzzy as my Latin-to-Italian translation tests (“versioni” as they called them) from back in the days.

But wait: what about a victory screen for when you finally guess what the number is (speaking of which, I thought I had only three lives but it seems I have many more. Maybe I didn’t read the instructions carefully. I wonder why)? Well this is where Simon really excelled himself (look for yourself):

So in the end what can I say: “Guess the roman number” is clean good fun for the whole family and nothing in this game could have been done better than it was, or maybe wait: Simon could have written this directly in latin, so there is room for improvement (or worsening) after all!

Score: XC (if that is in fact a roman number)

Have fun!