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1-13 of 13  Difficult to access, but maybe that was intentional?, January 6, 2024I had difficulty engaging with this work because of implementation issues. The pale gray text was difficult to read, most of the passages included spelling errors, and then it ended abruptly. (Right after I asked to be pointed to my room, everything stopped.) Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Promise unrealized, November 21, 2021(This is a lightly-edited version of a review posted to the IntFict forums during the 2021 IFComp. My son Henry was born right before the Comp, meaning I was fairly sleep-deprived and loopy while I played and reviewed many of the games, so in addition to a highlight and lowlight, the review includes an explanation of how new fatherhood has led me to betray the hard work the author put into their piece) Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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"There is nothing that can be said...to console us in our loss.", November 13, 2021by Tito Valenz This was a short, choice based story set in the future. The description tells us that a girl has died and our player character is Angra, the investigator. I thought the tone of the story was kind of odd. A lot of the writing is what you might think of as traditional sci-fi: futuristic technology in an advanced society, effective world-building, presented with slightly disaffected, clinical descriptions. A server is called a "food-giver." Other occupations include "logic-workers" and "wet-workers." Then there are moments that are worded in ways that feel different from the rest, such as, "The doctor by now is ugly crying," and the reminder that everyone is "...a hot 30 years old looking person..." We get to think about how living in a violence-free world of immortals would affect us, such as when one character asks if a murder suspect should face any penalties. In response, the investigator answers, "Punishment seems pointless." We are told in the description to think of the story as the first episode of a larger narrative. Perhaps we will get to see more of this world one day. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Mysterious and authentic, October 29, 2021The daughter is vividly written, with unique worldbuilding based on the concept of a queer utopia. The writing is both precise and sensitive, with a profound and careful attention to gender neutrality. There's also a gripping murder mystery at the heart of it, with shades of Twin Peaks and film noir more generally. The game isn't perfect; it's fairly incomplete and has some occasional typos. Nonetheless, it's quite entertaining, with some vivid turns of phrase (e.g. Great Hipster Purge) and some innovative worldbuilding. The entire point of IFComp is to make narrative-based games that come from a place of authenticity and genuine strangeness, and we find both of those here. Play this if you want to imagine what a world (mostly) without children might be like, what it would mean to live as a near-immortal hot 30 year old, or what it could mean to try to solve a murder from a distance, with one's agency diminished and strange. And I'll say this final comment: this one ends with a profound sense of mystery. As David Lynch always says: "the more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is." Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Very promising start to a mystery with lovely worldbuilding, October 29, 2021by mighty_chebo Considering that this is effectively a pilot episode or introductory chapter, it's rather successful. The world is introduced with a lovely balance of clarity and obfuscation, blending the familiar with the unusual. There are quite a few spelling/grammar errors, but I didn't notice them distracting me too much from the storytelling. The mystery is seeded quite nicely, with some hints at larger machinations or strange happenings, perhaps. My ending suited me as well, though I understand that the game deliberately tries to pitch the intrigue at a level that matches your previous choices. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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An incomplete futuristic investigation game, October 24, 2021One trend in IFComp is that an unfinished game will place near the bottom of the comp, regardless of any other positive features it might have. There are some exceptions, but they are rare. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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I never had a clue what was going on, October 5, 2021I feel like if you don't read the blurb on the IFComp website, then you will never have a clue what is going on in this story. Even if you do read it, your head will likely still spin. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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