Heart Friend

This is a Neo-Twiny Jam game about a relationship where you and the other person meet and care about each other but there is, it seemed like to me, space between the two of you, a lack of complete emotional intimacy. I enjoyed the writing, and it brought to mind some close friends of my own in a positive way.

The text is on a timer, specifically a very slow timer and it refreshes to a new screen each time the timer goes off, with no way to go back, so you have to sit very still and watch carefully to avoid missing anything. Text comes in passages with each passage having three sentences followed by a binary choice. The game lasts around 4 choices, so it doesn't take too long to play. I found this pretty frustrating, which was balanced by my enjoyment of the lovely way the writing connected with me.

Heart Friend feels like a series of powerpoint slides with some heavy slide transition effects. There were some parts where I *think* I had to click to move to the next slide, but otherwise, slide transitions are apparently all automatic.

Heart friend displays lines of a letter, told through multiple slides with a transition effect of sliding rapidly from one screen to another. As far as I can tell, transitions are automatic, and there doesn't seem to be a rewind function, so if you can't read the text quickly enough, tough luck. The music and backgrounds were nice, but the color contrast between the text and the background wasn't the best at times... but it was still fairly readable for me.

It's not entirely an interactive experience, since the page turning appears to be automatic. Still, you could always give it a shot.