The Surprise

by Candy Meldromon

2019
Slice of life
Twine

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
An order-of-operations game about a critical moment in life, October 1, 2020
by RadioactiveCrow (Irving, TX)
Related reviews: Less than 15 minutes

This game took me by surprise in that it is a hypertext choice-based game that is basically one big puzzle that involves clicking the choices in the right order. It takes place during a critical moment in a woman's life that is pretty much spoiled from the beginning ((Spoiler - click to show)she finds out she's pregnant, presumably for the first time). There isn't a lot of dwelling on the emotions or impact of the moment, each screen is only 2-3 sentences long until you get to the end. It is mostly the mechanics of moving around performing the actions in the right order and in the right place to get to the ending. It just struck me as weird.

It also involves the dreaded timed-text several times.

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