Developer: Zed Genre: Romance In Life is a Love Story you play Lima Coconut, heir to the almost extinct Coconut family fortune. Unfortunately, her batty Aunt has decided to alter her will so that the two remaining children, Lima and her brother, will be cut out of the inheritance unless they marry by the end of the week. Luckily, you only need to steal a flower to achieve this. At least it’s original. Instead of being able to just pick the flower from the beginning, the game only allows you to examine specific items at prescribed points during the story. Consequently, the game turns into ‘hunt the magic pointing hand’ as you rush between rooms desperately trying to work out it wants you to do next. This wouldn’t be so bad if the tasks followed a decent logic. In one particularly annoying section a character needs a pair of sunglasses before he can be persuaded to go to a party. After fruitlessly searching every room without success I suddenly saw the aforementioned pointing ha...
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