Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors (part 1!)

For the first installment of my Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirror's Official Impressions, I played a minigame called "What's Your Sign?", which is a personality test intended to guess your astrological sign. How does it do this?

Mostly with a lot of "full-motion video". Yeah, when you start the game, you get a nice long video of Penn talking about the fictitious "Personometer" that will be employed to determine your personality. How it works is that you answer questions by moving the Personometer to a point on a graph that corresponds to your answer. For example, the first question was about finding someone famous's wallet. The x-axis on the graph represents how disappointed you'd be if there were no reward for returning the wallet, and the y-axis represents how eager you'd be to return it.

Oh, and it's worth mentioning that Penn fucks up and transposes the axes. Maybe that was just misdirection so Teller could climb out of the computer across 13 years or so and get a look at my driver's license.

After three questions or so, they hold up a card with their guess on it. During my playtest, they were wrong. Huh. I just played a game about charting my opinions on a graph and that was the payoff? I mean, I just took a fucking survey for entertainment. I would at least expect some humor, or some... I have no idea what I would expect. Of course there was FMV of Penn saying what my sign was and Teller gesturing in agreement. I can't imagine how I would feel if I had just purchased this game.

So far I'm underwhelmed. There are a lot more games to play (and, no doubt, a shitload of awful grainy video to watch on 1/4 of the screen), though, so maybe there is hilarity ahead! Or maybe, just maybe, there's early '90s shit CD-ROM game design ahead!
(screenshots coming!)