The Sppy: The Suffering

I’m starting to get the impression this game might be kusoge on the level of Genma Taisen, but at least Genma Taisen was beatable. I didn’t get that far, and it wasn’t just because I’ve been busy; the game really tries hard to be impossible to play. Before trudging ahead, an order of business: there are some typos in the text that were not true to the original, and gschmidl has an updated file here. I still haven’t studied the source code but after this post I’m honestly probably just going to go for it; you’ll see why in a moment. The revised download also fixes the function keys to work properly (in hiragana) and also changes the “what should I do?” prompt to be in hiragana as well (like the screenshots in the magazine). Another one of the mode 4 color schemes. The first part I worked through was a genuine solve, via the clue that if you leave the starting scene and come back, the car is missing. This suggests the car is in some way important, so I tried whacking with various verbs…

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