When the Millennium Made Marvelous Moves

This game was quite different from most IF games I've played.

It's a slice of life game about a man and his girlfriend/wife who live in a cheap flat. He works nights, she works days, and today, on the eve of a new millenium, he is sick.

I was surprised when at the end of the day, (Spoiler - click to show)I found my wife dead at work. I was even more surprised when (Spoiler - click to show)there was a bright flash and I woke up at what I thought was the next day, only to see my wife still alive. That's when I realized this game was (Spoiler - click to show)a time loop. (all these spoilers are for things that happen in the first day only).

Gameplay consists primarily of interacting with others through menu-based conversation, collecting items (all of which (Spoiler - click to show)persist through the time loop) and trying to think of ways to help your wife.

There are a couple of small bugs and typos, which I've notified the author about and which should be easy to fix, although I had an issue where after I restarted the game I couldn't load any saves, which might have been an HTML TADS issue. Fortunately, the game is the kind where if you know what you're doing you can get from the beginning to end in very few moves.

I loved some of the characters in this, like Vincent, and enjoyed the multiple endings. A few times I really couldn't figure out what to do; I used hints once, I think. But overall this game was a good time and really a clever idea that was executed well.