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1-11 of 11 - Brad Buchanan (Seattle, Washington), November 18, 2022 - Jade68, September 14, 2021 2 of
2 people found the following review helpful:
A slightly interactive series of fun "origin stories", December 9, 2020I'm not sure if "origin stories" is correct to apply on this game, since not all of the included stories result in how things really are, but that is part of the fun. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Xylah, December 8, 2020 3 of
3 people found the following review helpful:
Interactive Just So stories, December 8, 2020This is a delightful set of fables, done in what sounds to my ear at least a note-perfect ventriloquizing of Kipling’s Just So Stories voice. There are real opportunities for interactivity – the player inhabits the role of the child to whom the stories are being told, and gets to interject an excited choice when the narrator prompts them for input in the story. It’s a very natural, elegant device, and in fact while some options are merely cosmetic, there are a couple that determine which of the five stories on offer (I think – I replayed a second time and didn’t see anything obvious I missed) you wind up seeing. Of course, each ends up just-so-ing into the appropriate place, but that’s sort of the nature of just so stories. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- E.K., December 5, 2020 - Karl Ove Hufthammer (Bergen, Norway), December 4, 2020 - Ann Hugo (Canada), December 1, 2020 3 of
3 people found the following review helpful:
A collection of short tales in the style of Rudyard Kipling, October 18, 2020This is a series of short stories inspired by/based around Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories. Each story is told over a small number of pages, and there is one or two choices per story. These choices lead to massive changes between replays, to the point where it’s basically a choice between two separate stories. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Well-written homage to Kipling's "Just So Stories", limited interactivity, October 17, 2020This is a choice-based work (more on the choices later) that takes the form of a paternal figure (I imagine the grandfather-grandson scenes from "A Princess Bride") telling several anthropomorphized-animal origin stories to a child, in the mold of off Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories". Comparatively long sections of text are broken up with the chance to offer the child's response to what he or she has just heard. Sometimes this takes the form of a binary choice, sometimes it is just a piece of hypertext, the choice made for you, to get to the next page. The prose is quite excellent (while the poetry at the end is appropriately bad) and the stories are well-paced and engaging. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Zape, October 3, 2020
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