IF Comp 2024: Welcome to the Universe
I’m getting mixed messages from the cover image, title, blurb, and content warnings. What even is this thing?
The opening confuses me even more, as it sounds educational. However, it’s very interesting, talking about a different version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Which also doesn’t seem to relate to any of the information about this game I’ve been given so far. Is it comedy? Horror? Realistic? Fantasy? I can’t answer any of those questions, when normally I’d be able to answer them from the image OR the blurb OR the title OR the opening paragraph.
But there’s no typos and there’s some psychology, so I’m interested.
Okay! That was a kind of prologue, ending with a joke. So… comedy? Probably? I can certainly deal with that.
This is delightfully weird.
Here’s an entirely random example. What does it mean? I don’t know. But I’m enjoying the ride.
I enjoyed the ride all the way to the end, and was impressed when the game fed various choices back to me in a cohesive description. I’m not sure I’d recommend this game, but maybe I would?
I have to let it percolate for a while. The writing is interesting and solid throughout, so I suspect it’ll rate highly with me. I’m biased like that.
Felicity Banks 
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