Ratings and Reviews by bluevelvetwings

This short game has an okay premise, with an okay set of concepts it wants to get across. The prose is okay, the options are okay. But the choices you make seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the ending you get - (Spoiler - click to show)I sat on the curb so I'm a 'zombie' now? Really?. That ending was just so out of left field that I sort of blacked it out of my memory, since nothing else in the rest of the game was even similar. That alone could have brought it down a star, but it wasn't big enough for that. Still, that example gives you a good idea of how the game felt - my choices meant nothing to the storyline, and that was almost frustrating.

If it were handled cleverly, I think that it could be an excellent game in the vein of Rameses, where you feel trapped by the overhyped American dream. But it wasn't handled cleverly - it didn't bash you over the head with the message, but instead flew quickly in the opposite direction and had absolutely no import. It was almost frustrating, but it actually failed to evoke any response in me at all. It wasn't quite good enough to be called 'stark' or 'gritty' either, but since I could see that the author was definitely trying something a little new I think this game deserves better than one star. It's just not very good, and only memorable because it could have been so much better.

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The Chicken Under the Window, by Lucian P. Smith

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Enjoyable few minutes, January 7, 2014

As someone who basically liked the game this is based on but isn't a fan of romance in the first place, I found this game highly entertaining for what it is. It's clever, but not groundbreaking. The prose is fun, and it's worth your time to check it out for the few minutes of diversion it provides. Does what it meant to do, and does it well.

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My mistake, by natulia

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Another one?!, January 7, 2014

My gosh, is there no end to these horrible things?

I'm sorry, but there have been so many of these on the main page for the last few days that it's getting ridiculous. This one bothered with a little more formatting than the others, but I can't say anything else good about it.

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This is a cliche in story form, written by someone who has no idea how mental illness works. Badly written, badly executed, offensive, and worst of all, horribly boring. Don't play this; it's not worth the minute and a half of your life.

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Celine Adventures, by natulia

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Nope, January 7, 2014

Surreal in the way only a 13 year old's crappy writing can be. I'm sorry for starting off with such an objective judgement, but yeah, this isn't even worth playing - the writing is horrible, with misplaced punctuation and barely any capital letters at the beginning of sentences. Not only is it offensive to the English language, but it's got actual offensive content - (Spoiler - click to show)you have to avoid getting 'raped' by a group of people who break into your house. And no, that's not handled in any way that makes it interesting or thoughtful or frightening, it's used for shock value in the worst possible way.

If you're the kind of person who wants to play a game that feels like a youtube comment tree, be my guest. But most people shouldn't even bother with this.

Tired of this crud.

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The Factory, by SollyStartles

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Nothing new, I'm afraid, January 7, 2014

This game was very hard for me to navigate, and the formatting was very unpolished and very outdated-looking. But once I did, I... honestly wasn't very impressed. The choices were extremely limited and the game was very short; I think I managed to get all the endings in about four minutes.

As for the story... well, it knows what it /wants/ to be, I'll give it that. But it really fails in the execution. There isn't any atmosphere at /all/, an d the writing is sub-par. The actual story is fairly simple. (Spoiler - click to show)The player character, Stuart, murders/witnesses the suicide of his mother. But it's poorly done, and has absolutely no impact - it's not interesting, not emotional, and not in a million years /scary/. There's no room left for thought in the prose - when the grammar is proper it just tells the story in a flat, boring way. But the grammar is usually just confusing. In all honesty, it reads like a bad creepypasta by a twelve year old, and has about as much 'horror' as one of those.

This strikes me as a very first-attempt-y game, and /that/ makes me sorry for being so harsh with it. The author is young or doesn't have a great handle on English, so I can be a little more lenient on them for that. But it doesn't excuse a boring, unscary game that's trying to do things it has no business attempting.

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