Tender Loving Care

I think this game should be played for educational purposes in universities. The amount of reflections in human nature and artistic visions are enough to expand the perspectives of anyone. The game also attempts to convey knowledge about our limitations and dreams. The acting and casting is great and appropriate for a fictional story very much like a late night movie, with erotic women and passions. The eroticism illustrated is effective and shameless. Sensuality and sexuality are big focus this game talks about, from an arousing, psychological and artistic perspective, which makes it the greatest piece of content that I know of to educate prudes so they realize how mentally limited they are. I felt like my decisions didn't influence the story the way I expected, but still I liked it, because the outcome seemed logical. I just think the "psychiatric nurse" had it worst and unfair. 1 Star less because the game keeps getting stuck after a while, so you have to constantly save and re-open the game. The game was much better than I expected. I want to play it again many years from now.

Tender Loving Care is an amazing game. Pioneering the genre of fmv games. A must play for game historians

Definitely an interesting 80s thriller to play through, and with lots of love put in, if you like walking around and looking at interesting things. But I was unable to see my final psychoanalysis on the test - if there even is one - and if you don't want to read a lot, there's simply no reason for it. Also not a clear connection between the quiz questions and your answers. As a fan of psychology, I just didn't learn as much from this as I had hoped. But it was engaging!

Ich habe das "Spiel" heute durchgespielt, einfach weil ich es "durch" haben wollte. Das Spiel besteht aus einem Film, in dem eine junge attraktive Therapeutin zu einem Paar in ein Haus einzieht, um ein traumatisches Erlebnis der Frau zu behandeln. Wenn ich jetzt noch sage, das es in dem Film/Spiel zu Softporno Erotikszenen kommt, dann kennt ihr schon die ganze Story oder? Der Film wird immer wieder für "Spielelemente" unterbrochen, die beihnhalten aber lediglich das immer gleiche Besuchen der selben Spots (Tagebucheinträge etc.). Die Elemente und die Bewegung erinnert an 7th Guest, was vom gleichen Hersteller ist. Zu den interaktiven Sequenzen kommen immer wieder Psychofragen, die man beantworten muss. Diese sind oft mit ziemlich plattem sexuellen Kontext (Hatten sie schon Outdoor-Sex? Haben sie schonmal an Sex mit Tieren gedacht? in diesem Stil..) und/oder man muss Zeichnungen und Bilder interpretieren. NICHTS davon hat irgendwas mit dem Film zu tun, es ist einfach nur Effekthascherei und einfach billig gemachter SCHROTT! Die letzte Stunde habe ich nur noch irgendwas angeklickt, damit der Film weitergeht. Der Film ist nicht wirklich gut, weil vorhersehbar, aber man kann ihn sich ansehen. Nur deswegen gibt es noch 2 Sterne. Gut das dieser Mist mit den "interaktiven Filmen" vorbei ist.

I enjoy interactive movie type games for the most part and Tender Loving Care seemed like it would be a good fit. While it didn’t deliver everything I had hoped it was a solid “game”. The plot was quite good up until the end and the inbetween bits where you’re answering questions for Dr. Turner were enetrtaining and thought provoking. I found the end kind of came out of nowhere with little buildup but then again sometimes violent situations do come out of nowhere so maybe I should see it as realistic. I was also disappointed that all of the answers I gave in between weren’t touched on at the end of the game. There are 7 endings to the game and which you receive is influenced by your answers so it’s not like they didn’t have an effect but maybe having a clue as to how you ened up at that ending would have been nice. Not everything needs to be spelled out though so it’s not a big deal in the end. I still enjoyed the story. I do wish that more of an explanation was given about the menu options and save system as I had to do some trial and error to figure it all out. I played TLC on Linux. I used PlayOnLinux as there is no native version for Linux. Initially there is no video when beginning a game but after adding "--disable-gpu" to the launch options fixed that. I had no crashes at all, no glitches or bugs aside from the initial issue. I used PlayOnLinux version 4.3.4 and game version 1.0(12852) from GOG. I paid $6.47 CAD for TLC and it was easily worth that price, I would have even paid up to $15 CAD for it. I would recommend Tender Loving Care to anyone who enjoys FMV games such as The Bunker, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker or even other interactive movie type games such as the Telltale Games. My Score: 8/10 My System: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 18.3.3 | Manjaro Mate | Kernel 4.20.11-1-MANJARO