The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole is a choose-your-own-adventure type game, written in part by Mosaic. Based on a popular children's book, the story centers around Adrian Mole, a young boy in the town of Lester, England.
Along the way you'll encounter various events, in which case you'll need to make a choice from a numbered list, e.g.:
"The spot on my chin is getting bigger. It is my mother's fault for not knowing about vitamins.
Choose one of the following for me:
1) put a plaster over the spot.
2) put Savlon on the spot.
3) scratch the spot."
Aside from the choose-your-own-adventure style of gameplay, you can type in someone's name to view some information about them, e.g.:
"Pandora Braithwaite (14). New girl at our school. Beautiful, with treacle-coloured hair and eyes the colour of our dog's. Goes on protest marches and gets up petitions about everything. Lives in a posh house at 69 Elm Tree Avenue.
Daughter of Ivan and Tanya Braithwaite. I think I'm falling in love with her; I can't be sure because I've not done it before."
Other than that, there isn't much aside from the available choices.
There isn't much atmosphere at all, but just by playing the game you can imagine the sort of things Adrian lives with. That's about it for atmosphere.
There are no guess-the-verb or guess-the-noun problems, nor is there a way to get the game into an unwinnable state. This is due to the CYOA style of gameplay.
There are no puzzles. Enough said.
Although it is not very complex, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole is an enjoyable game and a good time-waster.