It is a very good and unique experience and let me concentrate on exploring the whole picture. Worth a try!
(Spoiler)
I LOVE the puncher design! After running through it 3-4 times, I noticed the like and comment scraps on the table. They look like snowflakes, beautiful but fragile, hence have no power to reverse the destruction. To me, the theme is not about changing the fate, but encouraging people to act to care about their friends. It is important to feel good for oneself, and bring some warmth and happiness to friends’ hard lives.
It didn’t really bother me, but there are some little obstacles for me while playing. The speed of the text conversation is a little too fast for me, and I couldn’t stop it. And even if I still use Facebook, the thumb-shaped like slowed down my immersion into the Facebook context till the 3rd photo. The one-photo style posts and my personal usage on Instagram make me related to Instagram more. And after I unlocked the comment shape, I still got the music box hint, which I’m not sure if it’s meant. Finally, I suppose the photos are chronological, but the date format is harder for me to understand the timeline. (And a small thing I noticed not in-game is that, about the suicide picture, it seems that the wind blows in from the right, but only the left curtain was blowed.)
If the game wishes to be more concise, the table’s cleanness brings a mystery vibe, but it may also be utilized to convey some information in the photos and cut out 1 photo.
And sure, players don’t have control over the destruction, but after the profile page hint that there are multiple endings, I still feel the control of my understanding of the whole plot. I can do different punching and see what happens, and look into the photos more. It’s very hard to set the level of ambiguity, but it may depends on what kind of audience one wants to sell to. And the ambiguity in this game somewhat motivates and initiates me to explore more.
Another part that I love is that it utilized the photos to tell stories, like the photo (or mirror?) on the wall hinting at the status of the love relationship. And a clever detail lies in the REAL date of the intimate photo. The asshole shows his true form only 2 months after proposal. It makes one feel that the destruction is almost meant to happen, leaving endless sigh in one’s heart.
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It is a very good and unique experience and let me concentrate on exploring the whole picture. Worth a try!
(Spoiler)
I LOVE the puncher design! After running through it 3-4 times, I noticed the like and comment scraps on the table. They look like snowflakes, beautiful but fragile, hence have no power to reverse the destruction. To me, the theme is not about changing the fate, but encouraging people to act to care about their friends. It is important to feel good for oneself, and bring some warmth and happiness to friends’ hard lives.
It didn’t really bother me, but there are some little obstacles for me while playing. The speed of the text conversation is a little too fast for me, and I couldn’t stop it. And even if I still use Facebook, the thumb-shaped like slowed down my immersion into the Facebook context till the 3rd photo. The one-photo style posts and my personal usage on Instagram make me related to Instagram more. And after I unlocked the comment shape, I still got the music box hint, which I’m not sure if it’s meant. Finally, I suppose the photos are chronological, but the date format is harder for me to understand the timeline. (And a small thing I noticed not in-game is that, about the suicide picture, it seems that the wind blows in from the right, but only the left curtain was blowed.)
If the game wishes to be more concise, the table’s cleanness brings a mystery vibe, but it may also be utilized to convey some information in the photos and cut out 1 photo.
And sure, players don’t have control over the destruction, but after the profile page hint that there are multiple endings, I still feel the control of my understanding of the whole plot. I can do different punching and see what happens, and look into the photos more. It’s very hard to set the level of ambiguity, but it may depends on what kind of audience one wants to sell to. And the ambiguity in this game somewhat motivates and initiates me to explore more.
Another part that I love is that it utilized the photos to tell stories, like the photo (or mirror?) on the wall hinting at the status of the love relationship. And a clever detail lies in the REAL date of the intimate photo. The asshole shows his true form only 2 months after proposal. It makes one feel that the destruction is almost meant to happen, leaving endless sigh in one’s heart.