On Optimism

by Zach Flynn (as Tim Lane)

2005
Surreal
Inform 6

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A highly melodramatic surreal game, February 3, 2016

In this game, you explore the heart of your lover. It is an extremely melodramatic game, with every room causing you incredible anguish and suffering, or eternal bliss.

Here's a sample of the writing:

"Now it was my turn to weep. "But, why? Can't you see that I love you! You said that love is madness, and that is evidenced by mine! Am I not insane? I love you!" The last three words I uttered I screamed with tears falling down my face so loud that this heart's walls would certainly fall."

There are some basic puzzles. Some of them are poorly clued. There are a lot of text dumps, and it's hard to know what the message of the game really is.

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