Bureaucracy
DOS version
An interesting and funny game concept is very frustrating in practice due to the difficulty of the puzzles and the lack of direction in the game
The Good
Bureaucracy is a very funny game, from the silly forms you have to fill out to all the goofy situations and characters. As always for an Infocom game, the parser is excellent and the storytelling is vivid and descriptive.
The Bad
The puzzles we extremely difficult and I felt again and again that I had no idea what my goal was or where I was going. I got to the point at where the Bureaucracy in the game was more frustrating than funny and many puzzles had rather contrived solutions.
The Bottom Line
Bureaucracy is a comedy adventure game set in present times where you deal with a never-ending parade of forms, failures, and petty characters trying to deprive you of your wealth and well-being.
by Droog (460) on August 16, 2003