Victor Gijsbers reviews Bacchanal - the full-text abduction of paul czege

Victor Gijsbers reviews Bacchanal -- 03/24/2006

"And so, three first time players who were not, as far as I could see, particularly striving to tell a thematic tale at the start of the game, ended up with: one tale about a man discovering female sexuality and being destroyed because of it...; one heart-rending tale of a young girl abused then condemned by a male-dominated society; and one man succumbing to his own lust before he decided that the only way to deal with it was to forcefully excise it from his own body..."

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