All right, this review is very brief, as I don't have too much to say about this one that isn't favourable.
It was an interesting little game that I felt could benefit from a bit more information revealed about the back-story. On the plus side, I ended up replaying a number of times as a result, trying to glean all the information.
The game was not terribly difficult except for realising the word I had to use to examine a particular item on the NPC.
Author Encouragement:
What can I say? I really enjoyed this one. You should definitely feel encouraged to write more.
Scoring:
W: 4.5
The writing really drew me into this story, in spite of my not being a fan of character-interaction based IF. I spotted no obvious spelling or grammatical errors, which was a welcome change.
A: 3.5
Interesting and appealing, but as mentioned, this isn't really my type of IF. That being said, it was still very well done. Might be a 4 or 4.5 if I liked this sort of thing better.
B: 4
No bugs that I could spot. The only difficulty arose from not knowing the word to use to examine a particular item on the NPC.
E: 4
Pretty entertaining, the story-telling being its biggest strength. Very minimal, and no particularly complicated puzzles or anything.
WABE score: 8
This game may have benefited from being played after a few bad ones.