Oatmeal Agitante

There are entire spaces of parser games that have nothing to do with moving around a map, getting/examining objects

There are entire spaces of commands/affordances that have no good expression in anything other than brief natural language

The norms of parser games yield well-known pitfalls in design, like incentivizing the player to examine/take/sit on everything

It would take starting fresh, interacting through English in a new way, to eliminate these pitfalls

In platformer games, similar pitfalls do exist, e.g. places on a map may seem like exits but when you go to them, they don't interact

Often, with visual/spatial interfaces, such misunderstandings take under a second to be attempted and resolved, with no breakage in flow

I think there ought to be ways to accomplish similar "gentle" methods of bounding the world in parser games

I think having sophisticated "error/wrong" messages from the parser are a stopgap measure, but overall hold the medium back with their norms