“Mademoiselle, your life will be a crazy carnival, filled with laughter, luck, and life’s lovely lunacies...”

Theresa Duncan and co.’s lens with which to see the beauty of the world. Meets children at their level with their curiosity and does not go any lower. Love love love the writing here (and the narration, thanks David!), giving children beautiful prose to study and understand as they piece together this world. That’s a didactic view of course, but sans that even, the world still feels so descriptively penned. Also, aggressively 90s with its fuzzy guitar, pig-latin jokes, and (oddly popular) pastiche of beatnik culture.

Warms my gnarled heart that Fugazi and Nation of Ulysses alumni embraced this project with the care needed. It shows, truly.

Reviewed on Sep 08, 2021


3 Comments


2 years ago

Didn't wanna include this in an otherwise enthusiastic review, but it is so sad just how difficult and under-performing this game's preservation is. The site that houses emulation for these is rough, but playable, and any external solutions were simply too broken. I can't even find dumps of the other Theresa Duncan games, so if there's a better solution, it only benefits this one game, too!

2 years ago

This comment was deleted

2 years ago

The game runs good on ScummVM now so we at least got that.

2 years ago

Oh really? I'll have to check that out. Thanks Rowsdower!!!!!