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A somber story about dementia, April 11, 2021by Chin Kee Yong (Singapore) Growing old is one of my greatest fears. As a young person, it seems nightmarish to me that I may one day be reduced to a shadow, slowly losing control of my faculties and my agency, waiting for the story of my life to end. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Great story, clever use of the mechanics, October 5, 2020This isn't really a game, but a short story (or medium-length story, I think it might have taken me 2 hours to play through) that is very engaging and makes clever use of the mechanics of Twine to make you feel what the main character is feeling (like when (Spoiler - click to show)you click on a word to choose your path and the word changes in the updated text). The ending was both great and heart-breaking. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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An emotional and masterfully-told story about alzheimer's, September 30, 2020by bradleyswissman (Virginia, US) Some interactive fiction works open up new, fantastic worlds filled with indescribable creatures and clever puzzles. Will Not Let Me Go does not do this. In this relatively short Twine story, you play, or rather, experience life, as an elderly man named Frank who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and incurable progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the memory. The setting and and pacing of this story are both mundane - unhurried snapshots of a life at home, in the office, and at a diner with lifelong friends - but the subject matter is more devastating than death. You forget names, faces, places, and people, and experience the frustrating consequences of your forgetfulness. The gradual loss of autonomy is nearly palpable. The comparative lack of choice that is typical to the Twine platform makes for an even more emotionally fraught experience. As the player, you have little choice other than to control your emotions - will you rage, or go quietly, as you slip further and further into that good night? Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Will not forget, September 21, 2020by deathbytroggles (Minneapolis, MN) One of the more emotional interactive fiction pieces I've played. The intro hits hard and the rest attempts to show us various snapshots of Fred's battle with Alzheimer's. The characters are drawn quite well; between my grandmother and my job I've been around many family systems going through the same thing and it all felt very real to me. Granade also does some interesting things with Twine that emphasize Fred's confusion. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Wendymoon, September 15, 2020 - Marc-André Goyette, June 23, 2020 3 of
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Will Not Let Me Go: an unWinnable State review (this one gets very personal), May 13, 2020I was not looking forward to playing Stephen Granade’s Will Not Let Me Go. The description of the game is short: Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer’s. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A powerful Twine game about dementia, November 16, 2017I beta tested this game. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A masterpiece in Interactive Storytelling, October 24, 2017by Marco Innocenti (Florence, Italy) I guess it is always hard for an established author to enter a competition (the IFComp, especially, for several reasons). What will people expect from him/her? What SHOULD we? Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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