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 Amazing mood, okay plot, December 7, 2021by Rachel Helps (Utah) The AI-constructed images and strange music really transported me to an alien, AI-populated (?) world. It made the story feel uncanny. The story itself was fairly thin, about an AI who disconnects their matrix-style universe from the network of other universes (for some reason?). My favorite part was going to the museum of plaques and looking at the products of our time through the eyes of a far-future consciousness. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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An ontological heist, December 3, 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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This piece was not for me, November 7, 2021by Tito Valenz I was not into this game; it just wasn't my style. It's full of humor, some of it kind of meta, but I didn't respond to it. The writing was a bit complex, and I wasn't always able to keep track of what I had learned. I'm not generally a fan of this brand of sci-fi, the far-into-the-future stories about how a well-intentioned innovation ends up taking things to the extreme. I did appreciate that on my first playthrough, I was able to fail almost immediately. There were also some nice touches, such as the visuals and music; there was clearly care and effort behind it. I think it could appeal to fans of dystopian settings, and those who don’t mind a trippy but humorous approach. Also: is astral projection really "easily disproven pseudoscientific garbage"? Asking for a friend. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (2) - Add comment
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Explore layers of reality with AI-generated art, October 20, 2021This is a long Twine game that uses distorted sounds and AI-generated art to tell a story about a being in a world where astral projection is real. You discover in the first half of the game that (Spoiler - click to show)you are in a simulation of a universe that is roughly 9 simulations deep. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Life on Mars?, October 17, 2021by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano (California) In this sci-fi game, a simulated protagonist undergoes an astral projection experience and becomes tasked with getting back to the original universe to make a decision that could free everyone. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Multimedia, nonsensical story with few choices and formatting bugs, October 6, 2021I really feel like there was the seed of a good story here, but I just didn't get it. Most of the time I couldn't tell what was going on. On the one hand it seems like kind of a surreal/trippy story, but on the other there was more than one NPC scream-cussing at me and it definitely took me out of the mood of the story. There were very few choices in this piece, most sections of texted ended with a single hyperlink. In those few places where multiple choices were offered, sometimes the choices were not separated by a blank line, and because other "choices" were often a whole paragraph of text it was hard to tell if this was a really choice or a paragraph of just the next part of the story. I would recommend cleaning up the formatting in that regard so that when the reader gets an authentic choice they know it at a glance. On the plus side, the story had accompanying surreal illustrations and an atmospheric soundtrack. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | View comments (2) - Add comment
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