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Trilby - The Art of Theft - Time Waster
by Romeo Wahed Jan 14th 2008 at 3:00PM
If you don't like wasting time, stay away from Trilby - The Art of Theft, because it's going to eat at least eat up a day or two. It's the prequel to the highly acclaimed 5 Days a Stranger and is at least as time consuming.You take on the role of a stylish British robber that goes by the name of Trilby, playing on new turf in America. As you begin your missions to rob people blind in this stealth/platform game, you will quickly learn that timing and patience are some of your most important assets. Each mission has a limit as to how often you are allowed to be detected before you fail. Dodge the cameras and guards with skill, and you will quickly see your reputation rise which you can then use to "purchase" new skills to add to your sneaky repertoire.
The game doesn't have an installer - you just unzip the file and execute the game. Also, once you're hooked and starting to time yourself to see how fast you can complete missions, check out these YouTube videos of people posting their fastest playtimes for different levels.
In a nutshell, Trilby is a well executed
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James said 4:26PM on 1-14-2008
How can you review Trilby without mentioning Zero Punctuation at least once?
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Cougar said 5:16PM on 1-14-2008
True.
Not a word about Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw (the author) or ZP. :(
Jonathan Wienclaw said 5:34PM on 1-14-2008
Fun, but the difficulty level rockets by the 3rd heist...
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