Ratings and Reviews by Ruber Eaglenest

This has been delightful and fun, although a little tedious to navigate.

This is a common problem on hypertexts that tries to use model world and navigate locations. Just like in howling dogs, the feeling is: where I should go to advance the plot? What link or list of links should I press to advance the story?

This issue constantly gets in the way of the enjoyment of the story, being all the time micro-stuck.

It has the sense to leave the player agency of exploring the model world when the script is linear? Hmmm.

The execution and style are very fine, with a very beautiful choice of font and color. I had trouble with timed passages (as others players), but on the contrary: I felt they were well-timed most of the time (probably this was already fixed by the author) but, I missed one or two passages due to a very short timed fade out. I would prefer an ugly and common <--- back link instead of this commodities, that... as we have seen, could fail from time to time, or from circumstances of the reader.

Anyway, I think this is a really fine piece, so it is 4 out of 5 stars, just for *that* problem.

Excellent Interactive Science Fiction exquisitely developed and written (in Spanish).

It is hypertext (although it is not Twine). It amazes me the author's ability to satisfy the curiosity of the most, in terms of knowing and learning the textures, smells, and flavors of this new world. That is, you get a total immersion based on abundant options that allow you to deepen the experience.

I miss more interactivity in the sense that many of the protagonist's actions are automatic within the text (which is logical, and other types of players will appreciate it) but, I miss the movement of objects and actions carried out by my hand.

The story is absorbing and expands this science fiction universe developed by the author in two other games, this being the second in a trilogy.

This time, the game shows the same "People" as the first chapter "El protector" (both games are self-contained) but from the perspective of an outsider. The people are an alien tribe of sweet manners, mysterious ways who embrace and take care of the player, and it reflects quite nicely how we must learn to live in a new culture.

Highly recommended.

Excelente mezcla de literatura sobre la Guerra Civil y fantasía. Recuerda a algunos cuentos clásicos,además, como las Leyendas de Bécquer.

Me ha impresionado lo bien escrito que está para haberse realizado en tan solo cuatro horas.

Como es de esperar, echo de menos algunas opciones de interacción para aumentar la expresividad como jugador. También, el punto de vista coral se me hace extraño porque no sé quién soy, ni a quién afecta la interacción que estoy realizando. Pero esto no es un problema de la obra, es más bien, que los aventureros estamos mal acostumbrados a un punto de vista fijo y cristalino (segunda persona, tú eres el protagonista), y en cuanto nos sacan a algo más complejo nos extraña un poco. Quizás se podría suavizar con otra aproximación a las opciones... no se, habría que experimentar. Pero, por otro lado, este efecto de "obra coral" la hace mucho más interesante.

Hacia el final se nota un poco la premura por terminar el relato dentro del plazo, y hay unas pocas erratas y tal, pero vamos, lo habitual en este tipo de concursos rápidos.

Espero que el autor lo mejore tras que termine la competición, porque es una muy digna obra de Ficción Interactiva. Y con una edición con mimo, revisada la literatura, con una portada de libro elaborada, sería una obra excelente tener en la comunidad y para recomendar. Sobe todo porque me parece muy original. Se ven pocas obras sobre esa temática (en este subgénero) como para encima estén mezcladas con fantasía.

¡Fantástico!

El protector is an excellent eco-environmental science fiction fable (in Spanish), of great literary quality that immerses yourself in an alien world packed with stimuli for the senses. You breeze the fragrance of the plain, the stems brush against the tips of the fingers, the deadly fire lake warms the skin.

It is an adventure built with care and detail. The author likes to indulge in actions by being generous in his responses, texts, and descriptions.

It presents a universe that is also a tribute to the greats of science fiction, but that has enough tangibility and its own personality to be one of the author's most loved works, and most missed!
But we are in luck because the author has continued the series after 15 years since the game that concerns us today was published: “El protector”, with the second part of the cycle: “Memoria”.

In terms of structure, it is an adventure with puzzles for building elements that allow you to move forward using materials found in nature to take advantage of them. It is a short game, which can be completed in half an hour to an hour, depending on how much it costs you to overcome the puzzles (although there are clues built-in, just type AYUDA). Its geographical extension is short, but with a lot of exuberance, so that it even contains several biomes: plain, grassland, moors, beach, a volcano ... It is not necessary to map and the geography is preserved in memory, but it is enough to transmit a whole new world.

The ending ... the ending visits a sci-fi commonplace, which I can't talk about as it would be a huge spoiler. This is why I can not stop recommending that you visit the world of "El protector". It's time to wake him up to protect your village and its People.

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Virgin Space is a special effort to bring hypertext to several platforms at once, including e-readers. The format is superb, going beyond what gamebooks can achieve, all that beautifully rendered. The format is crafted with care and a nice visual design.

The story is brief. This is the length of a short tale but, personally, I liked it a lot. It even packs some puzzles!

Very recommended.

Now some notes on kindle ergonomics... There's a trend out there stating that interactive fiction didn't flourished in e-books and why. I have my own opinions: don't trust walled gardens. Old kindles are awful to navigate links, and Amazon never went to fix that.

Probably for modern, touchy e-readers this would work really fine. But if possess the good old Kindle, one has to navigate all those letters using the cursor, and then "double click" to fully proceed to the link destination. A Chorus! In the end I got accustomed to it (like we get accustomed to other elaborated interfaces, like the parser, or Killer 7 control scheme). In the end you are traversing the text to select the links, and that's just fine.

I'm eager to read more stories of this Textagames format.