Hello, some minimal reviews. I’m not as well versed in IF as many of you here so I hope you can forgive my naivety.
** LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST**
I really love the use of design, typography and timing here. It’s something I wish I was better at. A lot of this story reads to me like I’m watching a title sequence from a film, which is really nice.
I also love the the very palpable sense of place the story has, partly aided by the halftone background images, but also the references in the text itself.
The story itself is a lot of things, terminally online, educational, irreverent, sexy, youthful, personal, embodied. It doesn’t take itself too seriously but treats the experience it renders with seriousness.
The way the experience is designed, melding in various textual sources into one reading area worked well to evoke the sense of displacement and blurring that happens when the same device is showing you communications from different contexts in your life, whilst you might be embroiled in another, completely different context.
Which isn’t to say this is a game purely about technology, it’s deeply interested in what it means to have a body, in positive and negative ways, about relationships and community.
For me there were times where the pacing was slower than I would have liked. There’s a lot to get through and although the majority of things that are mentioned have satisfying payoffs, there’s some components that felt a bit tangential for me when playing through in a single sitting.
That said, I enjoyed the submission and would recommend checking it out if you think you would be interested.