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2 people found the following review helpful:
Fascinating story, limited gameplay, October 14, 2021It's a captivating story that unfolds in a way that makes more sense as you go, leading you to understand the characters and their relationships to each other. I went into my first playthrough completely blind, so my understanding was absolutely zero when I started and the first few sections made no sense whatsoever, but this didn't at all take away from my experience. It made it more rewarding when I began putting pieces together. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Malasana, October 9, 2021 - krai, October 4, 2021 1 of
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Powerful, Affecting, August 29, 2021by ccpost (Greensboro, North Carolina) I don't know that there's much I can add to the numerous reviews, but I played this for the first time recently and I wanted to register the incredibly moving experience that this game delivered for me. I'm still fairly new to IF, though I've had thought-provoking experiences with several works that have quickly demonstrated the artistic potential of the form to me. Photopia, though, is the first IF work that I've encountered that has moved me at a deep, soul-searching level. From start to finish, Photopia is a fine crafted, emotionally-wrenching experience. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Well-plotted fiction, June 18, 2021by Wynter (London, UK) I appreciated Photopia above all as a short story. Alley's life is told through the medium of brief sections of text, presented out of chronological order, and not from her own perspective, but from the perspective of different people in her life. As in some of the short stories of Alice Munro, the reader takes these different fragments of time and pieces them together. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- knockupwood, June 18, 2021 - proxyfeathers, April 27, 2021 - Cingulomanic, April 19, 2021 - yleaf, April 14, 2021 - Karlok (Netherlands), April 14, 2021 - Chin Kee Yong (Singapore), April 11, 2021 - starlitevenings, March 13, 2021 - arslonga, March 12, 2021 4 of
5 people found the following review helpful:
Sweet, sad, funny fiction with few puzzles, December 12, 2020by dvs I first played Photopia about 15 years ago and cried at the ending. It took me a while to figure out how the different vignettes fit together and it hit me hard. I had never experienced such emotion playing a silly text adventure. I will always love that about Photopia. Note: this review is based on older version of the game. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Ola (Sweden), December 3, 2020 1 of
6 people found the following review helpful:
Poor little game, November 15, 2020by Jade68 I've played this game and I expected more of it. Its an totally directed game, you can read coloured text and nothing more. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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5 people found the following review helpful:
A game which deserves his fame, October 28, 2020by frolic Adam Cadre made a brilliant use of Inform device, using it in a story with two kind of fictional worlds : in white, various points of view on a young girl's life, told in a non-linear order, and in colors, various adventures of an explorer , told this way in linear order. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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4 people found the following review helpful:
A must-play for anyone into IF, October 5, 2020First off, is this the greatest piece of IF of all time as it was ranked so a few years ago? I don't know about that. Currently I'm only giving it 4 stars (though that may change with another play-through), and since I have at least one other game already rated as 5 stars I guess I don't consider it the best of all time. That said this is a truly great work and something that everyone should play-through at least once. There really aren't any game aspects to it, you are just walking yourself through a story. But the story is so immersive and the way the interactivity is used really draws you in. And there are a few magical moments that just wouldn't have been the same without the interactive part, that wouldn't have felt the same just reading it. It really did open up new possibilities in IF and really lives out its own classic line: "Let's tell a story together." Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- William Chet (Michigan), July 19, 2020 - Xuan Li, July 5, 2020 - Arrowhead12 (Edmonton, Alberta), June 11, 2020
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