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Reality-On-The-Norm is a long-running series of games (most of them made in AGS), created by many different people, all of them set in a shared world. The setting for the games is a fictional town of Reality-on-the-Norm (or simply "Reality" for short), hardly an ordinary town, inhabited by a multitude of peculiar individuals, introduced by the numerous RotN authors. Any type of game which adheres to the basic rules is accepted into the project, although adventure games are the majority. The concept of the project has been created around 2000 on the AGS forums. The very first game in the series was "Lunchtime of the Damned." In it teenage magician Davy Jones, and his girlfriend Elandra, perform a resurrection ritual at the graveyard in hopes of bringing a deceased local to life. But everything goes horribly wrong, and they end up becoming unwitting progenitors of a brain-craving zombie. Can Davy put an end to the undead menace's existence? The puzzles are, although few, rather good. They shouldn't give you any trouble. And if they do, you won't have to look long for the solution as the setting is limited. Music is, apart from a very short Reality on the Norm theme song, all unoriginal. They're all MIDI, and they all sound quite neutral. They shouldn't annoy you. These games are very short, and offer perhaps an hour or less of gameplay. But it's the continuance of the series, and the fact that new games get released on a rather fast basis, that makes this series unique. Since the games are designed by different designers, they differ a bit in style from chapter to chapter. However, as they share the same backgrounds, characters and overall atmosphere, you'll feel at home in all RON games once you've played one. |
