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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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