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9. Mental Repairs, Inc.

Mental Repairs, Inc. is a point and click adventure game in the style of classic LucasArts releases, created by Renzo Thonen with the help of the Wintermute Engine. You play the role of a machine psychiatrist named Henrik Liaw, who received an innocent emergency call during the night from a large corporation requesting for repair works to be done on their main computer with haste. Nothing ever goes smoothly in an adventure game, and once you're inside the building you quickly find yourself trapped with no clear exit from your little predicament in sight.

As a machine psychiatrist, you repair defective electronic devices by entering the machine's psyche and treating them from the inside. This involves using a wrench-like tool called the Katharsis Interface to establish a mental connection with the machine's articificial brain, then finding a solution to the problem before returning to reality once you've managed to sort things out.

There are less than twenty rooms to explore in total, and the game probably won't take longer than an afternoon to complete at most. You can also highlight interactive spots and exits by pressing the space key or clicking on the green magnifying glass icon on screen.

"Mental Repairs, Inc. was the final project of my Bachelor's degree at the Zurich University of the Arts. The short development time of about four months forced me to scale down the game's scope more than once. In the end the story benefited from this, I think, as it concentrated on a few characters (actually just one, the rest being machines) and wasn't about 'saving the world'.

One of the main inspirations was Tim Schafer's Psychonauts, of course, but also the habit of many people to talk to machines and treat them like persons, especially when they refuse to work." - Renzo

Name: Mental Repairs, Inc.
Developer: Renzo Thönen
Platform: Windows
Size: 64.4 MB

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