I'm going to be brief here. You need to play this game.
It's a visual novel, so if you don't like them, you won't appreciate it. Too bad, you're missing out.
It's free. I'd pay money for it.
It's one of the best games I've played, period. It's rare that a game affects me emotionally, but this one did. Very quickly. And repeatedly. I went from uncomfortable to squee to a miserable wreck in a very short space of time. I played it practically nonstop without breaks until I finished it. It's now 2.30am and I am making this thread right now to let you know:
[color=red][size=30]YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW.[/size][/color]
That is all.
Oh, fine, have an RPS review if you need to read some coherent words about it.
The game is very good. If you liked Digital: A Love Story you should absolutely check it out.
I wrote up a thing about it, which maybe you shouldn't read until after you play the game. The ending left me feeling kinda conflicted about the direction it went and I'd love to get a big spoiler-tagged discussion going here once a few people have played it.
I will play it. But if you screw me, Floomi, the consequences will be dire.
Since the RPS post I've gone to her site and have been slowly digesting her work in order of release. I'm on the second half of Cell Phone Love Letter. Can't wait to get to the acclaimed Digital and DTIPBIJAYS.
Tagging.
I might not get to it for a few days (or next weekend) but I'll play it.
Played through it in one sitting, so it was definitely engaging. The way the story was presented and the various side-plots were, for the most part, excellent.
That said...
The big twist with Isabelle was pretty weak. It was telegraphed too early and too often, and it just didn't work all that well anyways. The fact that all of the protagonist's conclusions were drawn from vague posts online was interesting, but are we honestly supposed to believe that when a student withdraws from school her teacher would receive no official notice whatsoever? Even when he sends emails trying to track down her contact information?
Also, while I liked the whole twist that everyone knows about the snooping and doesn't care, the way that message was delivered at the end seemed way too heavy-handed. Did we really need a long speech from Ichigo about how the concept of privacy has evolved over time? And the fact that the kids didn't even know what the word privacy meant is flat-out ridiculous. Does this Enlightened Future World have no doors, bathrooms, or underpants? The concept of privacy extends far beyond Facebook posts.
All rants aside, this was a damn impressive piece of interactive fiction.
I've had the Digital: A Love Story shortcut staring at me forlornly from my desktop for months now, I guess this one may as well join it.
Thanks for bringing this one up. I'll be talking about it a fair bit on the show next week! Tied into the topic pretty well too.
I really enjoyed it, probably because I'm too dense to have seen how the ending would turn out.
Subscribing.
Liked this a lot. Two playthroughs later, it's interesting to see what can change, and what seems to be hardwired into the game.
Ugh. I just finished Digital: A Love Story and now I'm super-super sad. Christine Love is a horrible lady who should never, ever stop doing what she does. Even when it's breaking my heart.
You folks really should follow Fringe Busters.
Tagging, I'll check this out in a week or two when things quiet down.
I played through this in one sitting yesterday. I found the story/twist fine, but absolutely *loved* the characters. There was some pretty amazing characterization going on there.
I loved the last email from the administrator where everyone's grades got curved up to As. =)
Since both Floomi and Switchbreak enjoyed this, I'll download it just to see how much I hate it.
I don't normally write this, but I'm tagging this thread for later. I don't think my boss would appreciate me spending 3+ hours playing internet games, so I'm going to save this for when I have more free time at home.
So i played through Digital: A Love Story, then took a second spin through this one to try some different choices. This time, I noticed a fun little detail:
There are a lot of obvious links between the two games, like the Amie computers, Akira's grandmother, and the "missing girl was really an AI" spoiler in Kendall and Akira's presentation. What surprised me, though, was that on my second playthrough Ichigo's friend (the one who pretended to be the shinigami) had the same last name as my character from Digital. I guess it must have read my save file.
Really? That's very smart; I'll look out for that. I did notice that
Spoiler:Rook says he used to work in computers before he was a teacher, and sure enough his name turns up in Digital. He's the person who runs the LCL BBS - his name turns up on the Matrix BBS after LCL gets hosed, and he's the one that gives you *Emilia's message.
I noticed that too, but it doesn't seem to fit the timeline. Rook's only 38 in the second game, yet one of the BBS posters is Akira's grandmother and she announces that she's pregnant with Ichigo. So unless he was running a BBS when he was like 2 years old there isn't really time for Ichigo to grow up and raise a 17-year-old son.
I downloaded it awhile ago, but haven't had a chance to put much time in. I'll post my thoughts once I finish it.
I wrapped up the first chapter, and I thought I'd post a few thoughts before finishing it. I should preface this by saying that the only reason I'll be finishing it is because of you guys.
There are some interesting storytelling mechanisms on display here. This is the first work I've seen that's successfully used the asynchronous nature of social media in a storytelling context. It was fun, if slightly cumbersome, to read the students' conversations during the instructor's presentation. However, while reading I was itchy to take a red pen to the script to clean up the writing itself.
I'll check it out, tagging for future reference.
While I enjoyed Digital: A Love Story and I thought the way the player interacted with the world was novel it just wasn't all that entertaining to me.
I couldn't get it to work on my machine... I installed, and got some cryptic error message when trying to start the game. I figure the universe was trying to tell me to go play some more DA2. Oh well.
Floomi wrote:Ugh. I just finished Digital: A Love Story and now I'm super-super sad. Christine Love is a horrible lady who should never, ever stop doing what she does. Even when it's breaking my heart.
You folks really should follow Fringe Busters. ;)
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