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Old 03-13-2005, 12:31 PM   #15
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Well, I of course won't diss all of Dreamfall just because of that one instance, but surely it would still have been in the service of the story and the player's emotional involvement had the 'very real' dangers of death, dying, and injury been present while at the same offering alternate choices and consequential scenarios should the things go awry like this.
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