Jane

by Joseph Grzesiak

2002
Slice of life
Inform 6

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A decent enough idea, but the execution just didn't work for me, November 25, 2007
by Kake (London, England)
Related reviews: Joseph Grzesiak, ***

Jane is a puzzleless, story-driven piece with multiple narrators. It takes maybe about 10 minutes to play.

The subject matter of this game is domestic violence (not a spoiler — the author tells you this up-front); this makes it slightly tricky to criticise, since it feels a bit like criticising a charity for the wording of its mailshots. The author's heart is clearly in the right place, and the text certainly isn't badly written, but I never really felt drawn in to the story. It also didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.

I'd have liked to have seen a bit more individuality in the characters; they just felt like stereotypes to me. I think the message would have been more powerful if there had been something to the characters beyond their specific roles in this specific narrative.

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