Thread:Kefke Wren/@comment-7706473-20130402074410/@comment-7706473-20130409110452

Just so - that's a phrase I've always liked. When that moment that something winds up 'right' and you know that all the stars have aligned in your favor... That is just so, and truly 'tis. One last brace of thoughts for the evening and then I'll turn in, but my mind was literally at the perfect place for this. Excellent work - and I mean that without hyperbole.

I think I mentioned in my review feedback that, anyone who had some experience with placeholder assets could relate to the game. The thing is that - even more than that, and now speaking only personally - I can relate as a writer to earlier drafts of things. To saying to someone "Ah, how about the animals aren't saved? How about you can't be the hero all the time..?" And it's turned down due to being too dark, or to time/budget constraints, or due to fear that players are morons, and maybe they are and maybe they aren't - but the idea was there.

The thing is - by bringing complexity to the story, it seems ever more plausible. The bear-boss for example sounds like the ur-example of bosses that are scrapped for being a little too difficult, and retooled into something else. I'm reminded a lot of days when both parents were at work, I was alone with only the faint glow of the television in front of me... In moments like that, when the weather was cold - it was easy to suddenly imagine games becoming darker, more unpleasant. It is why, perhaps, I seek out scary stories, and why I enjoyed this.

... And more seriously, again, you did it all without hyperrealistic blood. No mo' needs be said! And I liked the narrator and Sam; and that doesn't happen often. I was actually rooting for some sort of happy closure, but - the ending was in it's own way an example of how an uncomfortable experience can reach out and make other things uncomfortable... (And she doesn't like octopi! You can do better, Mssr. Narrator!)

Awright. It's late, I'm tired. It was really cool seeing this hit off the presses! Thank you for the story; I enjoyed it thoroughly.