![]() ![]() Not only is everything in the country themed around literature and puns, but they’ve actually weaponized the language by developing devices capable of altering reality itself by changing the names of items (in English, of course). The nation of Anglophone Atlantis takes wordplay to its logical extreme. Without further ado, it’s time to look at 5 of the best transformation text games. Individual writers and collaborators alike have contributed to interactive tales of TF that range from the merely thought-provoking to the raunchy. Though the commercial heyday of text adventures has passed (and with it such games as Infocom’s 1986 sci-fi spoof Leather Goddesses of Phobos, in which the player’s brain is swapped with a gorilla’s), the medium lives on in the Internet, with or without illustrations. Thus, it was only natural that when video games began to use text to create a more immersive world, the theme of transformation would follow. Prose has many advantages for the genre: it can help the reader get into the head of the transformed character better, it is often better at concealing changes until the right time, and, of course, it saves on special effects. The roots of transformation stories lie in mythology and literature, from fables told by ancient storytellers to the latest fantasy novels. ![]()
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