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In this award-winning text adventure, you journey between various short
stories that are connected solely by color. At any one time, you may be speeding on
the road with a friend, landing on Mars, or teaching your daughter about astronomy.
It all wraps together in the end, though. Scenes from a handful of ordinary lives
alternate with chapters of a child's colorful science-fantasy. Sweet and sad, and
complex enough that you may need to go through it twice in order to fully understand
how all the fragments fit together. Very story-driven, with menu-based conversations
and virtually no puzzle content. It isn't terribly interactive - indeed, you're
practically driven through it on tracks, and any actions that you don't take tend to
be rendered unnecessary. But the story is intriguing enough, and well-written enough,
and moving enough, that this seems a small quibble. This is one of the most
successful examples of interactivity at the service of fiction, rather than vice
versa. The author intended this game to be played with colored text. |