The Animal

Player Rating3.03/8

"#797 overall, #98 for 2014"
based on 114 ratings since 05/23/2014
played 606 times (finished 116)

Story Difficulty4/8

"march in the swamp"

Play Length1/8

"Make sure not to blink"

Maturity Level3/8

"must be at least this tall to play"
Contains content that may not be suitable for persons under age 10. If this were a movie, it would probably be between G and PG.

Tags

Serious

A classic murder mystery.

Player Comments

The grammar was very bad, and I thought that the story was difficult to navigate, only plus side is the use of items
-- Nerd26 on 11/8/2019 7:18:11 PM with a score of 0
To Win:

Take the potions and use the Animal one. Transform into and animal for no goddamned reason at all except the author is a furry, click the only link you can click until you're told to use the Human potion.

Take the items. Don't bother looking at them. You won't need them for anything, but you must have them all for the link to MOVE ON to appear. Click that.

Apparently you're supposed to identify a murderer now. Nothing was ever said about a murder but okay.

Don't worry about talking to any of these people, just go to pick the murderer and then go down the list of names until you win. The End.

So to recape: You drank a potion that turned you into an animal, walked down the street to reach a building, drank a potion that turned you back into a human. Picked up some random things you found lying around, and entered a room full of people to randomly accuse them of murder. No further context was given. There is no story here.

I apparently gave this a 1/8 years ago, but still feel like that was nowhere near harsh enough. This wouldn't last a day if published today.

Mousepaw is somewhat legendary for her cringe even when we're talking 2014, a year of nothing but. So there's that, if you're browsing the site for historical research purposes.
-- mizal on 8/27/2019 12:28:31 PM with a score of 0
i was only an animal for like a sec but ok
-- shaleyk on 11/7/2018 8:13:17 PM with a score of 0
This was a good story. It was short but fun.
-- Far dal on 11/2/2018 8:00:36 PM with a score of 0
First story? I don't see the reason how this could be any good from the one's I've seen that are bad that are very good
-- WritingStories on 10/26/2018 8:57:31 AM with a score of 0
A good story. I like how easy it was to finish, and how the facts were put in a succinct, list-like manor. Short, but still good.
-- Davidicus on 10/25/2018 11:37:54 PM with a score of 0
This is a pretty good start. The plot is not too developed, but I like the murder mystery concept.
-- caitm on 10/25/2018 6:09:53 PM with a score of 0
Guy#1: "Hey friend, will you kill me?"
Guy#2: "No problem!" (kills Guy#1)

I have so many complaints about this storygame.
-- corgi213 on 10/22/2018 9:49:09 PM with a score of 0
What was the point of the animal potion?

Anyway, a game about investigating a murder mystery is an interesting idea in theory, but this was just fell flat in execution in so many ways. It's not even necessary to read anything, blindly clicking suspects until you happen upon the right one also works just fine.
-- mizal on 12/2/2017 11:31:51 PM with a score of 0
Good story!
-- Deo on 9/4/2017 3:55:12 AM with a score of 0
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