Reviews by bluevelvetwings

As someone who basically liked the game this is based on but isn't a fan of romance in the first place, I found this game highly entertaining for what it is. It's clever, but not groundbreaking. The prose is fun, and it's worth your time to check it out for the few minutes of diversion it provides. Does what it meant to do, and does it well.

My gosh, is there no end to these horrible things?

I'm sorry, but there have been so many of these on the main page for the last few days that it's getting ridiculous. This one bothered with a little more formatting than the others, but I can't say anything else good about it.

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This is a cliche in story form, written by someone who has no idea how mental illness works. Badly written, badly executed, offensive, and worst of all, horribly boring. Don't play this; it's not worth the minute and a half of your life.

Surreal in the way only a 13 year old's crappy writing can be. I'm sorry for starting off with such an objective judgement, but yeah, this isn't even worth playing - the writing is horrible, with misplaced punctuation and barely any capital letters at the beginning of sentences. Not only is it offensive to the English language, but it's got actual offensive content - (Spoiler - click to show)you have to avoid getting 'raped' by a group of people who break into your house. And no, that's not handled in any way that makes it interesting or thoughtful or frightening, it's used for shock value in the worst possible way.

If you're the kind of person who wants to play a game that feels like a youtube comment tree, be my guest. But most people shouldn't even bother with this.

Tired of this crud.

This game was very hard for me to navigate, and the formatting was very unpolished and very outdated-looking. But once I did, I... honestly wasn't very impressed. The choices were extremely limited and the game was very short; I think I managed to get all the endings in about four minutes.

As for the story... well, it knows what it /wants/ to be, I'll give it that. But it really fails in the execution. There isn't any atmosphere at /all/, an d the writing is sub-par. The actual story is fairly simple. (Spoiler - click to show)The player character, Stuart, murders/witnesses the suicide of his mother. But it's poorly done, and has absolutely no impact - it's not interesting, not emotional, and not in a million years /scary/. There's no room left for thought in the prose - when the grammar is proper it just tells the story in a flat, boring way. But the grammar is usually just confusing. In all honesty, it reads like a bad creepypasta by a twelve year old, and has about as much 'horror' as one of those.

This strikes me as a very first-attempt-y game, and /that/ makes me sorry for being so harsh with it. The author is young or doesn't have a great handle on English, so I can be a little more lenient on them for that. But it doesn't excuse a boring, unscary game that's trying to do things it has no business attempting.