Ratings and Reviews by namekuseijin

As far as I understand it, this guy doesn't seem to enjoy IF and IF play mechanics. So he writes a bunch of whiny IF to get his point across. Guess I should try that out with twine.

Anyway, while his pee-simulator was kind of fun (2 stars for bringing me a LOL), this one shall receive just a lone star, because while it starts out great and promising (as in fine prose and setting) it quickly turns to a mediocre and lame ending.

This is a short hypertext story with bits of stats thrown in to make you feel like you're accomplishing more than just turning pages. It's already 1 star in my book for not being IF proper, but I'll reward an extra star for the fine prose.

As for the story itself, it's about a junkie seemingly getting into horsebreeding. The narrative initially seems to hint at a delusional crackhead going nuts and losing all in his life while his "horse" grows steady. But after building up tension for long, in the gran finale, the competition, he then (Spoiler - click to show)kills the horse and that's about it. He wins, no further explanation.

I thought the competition would be (Spoiler - click to show)a kind of setup by government officials to detox the population of delusional crackheads by making them face their vices and combating them (the horse then being a token for the crackhead delusions), and indeed one may read the finale like a parable of sorts, but nothing in the text makes it clear cut and I may just be reading my own preferred ending.

in short, the finale felt rushed and there's really no significant choices and the stats seem to have no effect. It's a work of static fiction in small chapters for tinyscreen/twitter readers, not IF.

blame Emily Short for this review. She was the one to recommend this.