Ratings and Reviews by Ordon

The Bengali was what I was most interested in, and I was thoroughly disappointed.

The transliteration is egregious. I had first thought that our character was speaking in some dialect, but no. He just spontaneously starts spouting nonsense whenever he opens his mouth.

The translation is also unnatural. Looks like you used Google translate for most things. Calling a bank, "taka poysha jomanor jayga" was just funny. It's just 'bank'.

Also, the pronunciation 'guide' or whatever is way too long, to the point where you have to read a whole page worth of convincingly confident and terribly inaccurate spiel just for a line of awkward Bengali.

Then, there's the grammar and spelling slips, which were too frequent to ignore. Something was going on with the story, but I couldn't care enough to notice.

Halfway through, the game throws me an error. A missing if conditional, or something. I couldn't even finish the game.

Overall, this just feels like it had the minimum amount of effort put in to be able to call it an IF.

You know, I was just promenading around itch, looking for an entirely different IF (the Abyssal Song, actually, which is also great), when I happenchanced upon this fine specimen.

Its short, but filled with detail, polish and lore. The visuals look really clean. The sound design isn't obnoxious and fits in with everything else.

But what really gets me is the writing. It's so good.

If there was anything negative I'd have to say, it's that you can't scroll up while the text is rendering, which is irritating on replays where you're stuck waiting for it to load so you can scroll back up and see if you missed any of the lore.

And I just love the premise. There could be so many offshoots off of this whole idea.

Highly recommend.