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The setup for this game looks like it could go places. Satirising both communist propaganda and capitalist consumerism could make for quite a few interesting and entertaining ideas. However, the actual game is a sparse, Twiny Jam-sized affair, more a toy than a game, where you click a link to acquire randomly-generated objects.
The technical implementation is flawless, as far as I can see, and the work would probably earn two stars from me, if not for the fact that it's almost completely written in faux-Cyrillic script (for example, using Ф to represent O, not the F sound it actually means), which makes it nearly unreadable and vaguely offensive.
The author himself admits that this is his first published Twine game, so I'm loath to be too harsh to it. The coding, like I said, works perfectly, and the visuals are appropriate. While the actual game is very slight, it is at least a nice time-waster. Rewrite it with proper lettering and it would be greatly improved.
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Coincidentally, I just got finished commenting on another one of your reviews. Good stuff and you have a great sense of humor! I'm scared that I will find out you got hit by a truck since this and will never review again! Yes faux-Cyrillic is vaguely offensive (other nationalities like the Greeks use it, not just Russians!) and some actual factoids like "using Ф to represent O, not the F sound" would only have taken the dev two minutes to look up, while actually teaching the audience something. You know what I would really like? new economic paradigms where not everything is either binary capitalist or communist. It may come soon as the US collapses in on itself, not unlike the Soviet Union. We are much closer to it in 2021!
FWIW, thought I haven't played it, if it were in "proper" cyrillic I would have no idea what it all meant. The faux-cyrillic, like in Big Red Adventure, makes it look exotic while still being readable.
Good point, but it's still rather hard to read - and that's just for me who grew up with the Latin alphabet. Someone who's native to the Cyrillic alphabet would find this game a lot more confusing.
