You Can't Save Her

Note: This review was written during IFComp 2024, and originally posted in the authors' section of the intfiction forum on 21 Sep 2024.

This is a scifi Twine piece, where two former friends face off, against the backdrop of a world with nuns and mysterious sacred algorithms. Can you change destiny?

I liked a lot about this. The writing is strong, I liked the atmospheric music, and the dual perspective view of the world works well.

On the downside I was a little confused by the interface, as can happen to me in some Twine stories. Sometimes clickable options would move the story on, but sometimes they would cycle through options. Even in the latter case I wasn’t always sure if I clicked to cycle through whether I was selecting the option I had just clicked on, or the option that then appeared. And then I clicked elsewhere.

I also was sometimes confused by the dual perspectives. Though not always knowing who was who and what was what was thematically highly appropriate.

However it was an evocative piece. And even though it’s short, it packs a lot in.