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From: buzzard@TheWorld.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: buzzard comp reviews
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Mike Sousa  <mjsousa@mediaone.net> wrote:
>Thanks for taking time to play/review NTTS.  Just wanted to clarify a
>point that appears to have ticked you off.  Restore will only work once
>at the end of scene one and at the next attempt, will force a restart.
>The meta-commands are all left as is except for that one prompt.

Once is too many times. And this doesn't address the fact
that sometimes restart restarts a scene, and sometimes it
goes to the next scene, and there's NO WAY to tell the
difference. I stand by my complaint on this one (and I
see many other reviewers were irritated by restart/restore).

>As for plagiarism, you couldn't
>be more off base.

That's not the term I would apply to it at all.

And certainly I have no way of knowing whether it was intentional
or not, but unless you're going to tell me that neither of you
played any of those three games, it seems far too much to
be a coincidence. But I probably could have phrased it less
aggressively, since I suppose my real point is that your
game invites comparison to all three of those games, regardless
of their relations.

SeanB
PS: If neither of you ever played those games, I will surely apologize.

