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Review
You Cannot Speak isn't the only unfinished game I've tried in IFcomp. Yet, it is incredibly difficult to rate this one. You wake up in some dreamlike state, struggle to speak for a bit, and soon find yourself waking up in a room in some sci-fi setting. After doing a couple of things, you talk to some folks, and then the prologue ends abruptly.
There simply isn't enough content here for me to assess the setting and plot of this short introduction. What little that is here is interesting, but despite this game being listed under the 'half an hour' game duration, you could probably finish 2-3 playthroughs well below that time. I'm not against short games or introductory games in IFcomp, but it's just flat out impossible for me to give a score to this one.
I'm declining to leave a star rating. That said, I think this game really needed more time in the factory, even if it's just an introductory portion.
