Talk:Conplus/@comment-25021327-20141127153417

I really enjoyed this. I'm a child of the 80's/90's so I love stories about cartridge games, thusly, I may be a bit biased, but whatever. I found this story to be engaging throughout, It feels well paced for its length.

I enjoyed the vague aspects of this story, we are only really given information that is pertinent to the story. Very little overt character development, is put into this, and I think that is a good thing. I think it allows the reader to use the narrator as more of a surrogate than an actual character, because the main character of this story for me, is the game.

I liked all the descriptions of the games included on this odd cartridge. They all felt very believable, and I was able to envision them all with relative ease. There wasn't really anything about the cartridge, or its contents that felt like it streched my suspension of disbelief. I could imagine playing these mini-games on my old wood panelled TV in a dark room late at night, and feeling unsettled, yet there was nothing so blatantly disturbing about the games that felt cheesey.

When it got to the ending, I initally had a moment of "oh COME on..." but then I remembered the little detail you mentioned about the uniqueness of the cartridge, and it all started to make sens. You brought it back for anyone who didn't catch it without it feeling too hamfisted.

I actually felt a little unnerved by the ending. I don't usually get that from reading stories, and on paper the very ending of this seems like something I would consider a little too "straight horror" to enjoy as much as I did... but I did enjoy it. It was a good way to tie it all up in a manner that made sense for the story without having some big, grand "reveal." the story, and its ending complement each other well.

So, yeah, I'm very glad I read this :)