Sunday, October 2, 2016

Wade's Important Astrolab: IFComp 2016 reviews: The Mouse by Norbez

Wade's Important Astrolab: IFComp 2016 reviews: The Mouse by Norbez

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In which a uni student in small town America negotiates domestic abuse and violence from her roommate.

The Mouse feels like a comic book with the multimedia additions that computers bring: audio and music, dynamics of delay, a few choices. You click through its pages in a forwards direction, usually by the tail of the last sentence on each page. I think it's assured in its comic bookish sensibility, for instance with a fan of images of the heroine's domestic preparations going from left to right down the screen, or with its generally well-judged interplay of text and images. However, I was frustrated by the story framing and scale in general, and by the constant hesitance of the main character in dialogue and narration. Spoilers below.

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October 2, 2016 at 09:26AM

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