CWs for Terranova: eating disorders, gaslighting, homophobia, child abuse
A narrative game deeply committed to simulation of chat clients and RP communities in the mid-aughts, Terranova is often landing the bit at the expense of delivering cohesive character arcs. Reading chats and drafting my blog posts are really sublime at the writing and especially the interface level, but there's a common route you're forced onto that really runs in the face of most expression choices available. The top half of this game (which is all I speak to because I ended with the game in an unplayable state) feels like actual personal memories of the he/him lesbian RPers I knew in high school ripped from my brain before forcing an abrupt turn to make everyone hate each other like it's a CLAMP doujin. This is a really interesting project and I'd love to see this engine refined for something else, but this game is missing tact in design and writing that YA fiction direly needs.
A narrative game deeply committed to simulation of chat clients and RP communities in the mid-aughts, Terranova is often landing the bit at the expense of delivering cohesive character arcs. Reading chats and drafting my blog posts are really sublime at the writing and especially the interface level, but there's a common route you're forced onto that really runs in the face of most expression choices available. The top half of this game (which is all I speak to because I ended with the game in an unplayable state) feels like actual personal memories of the he/him lesbian RPers I knew in high school ripped from my brain before forcing an abrupt turn to make everyone hate each other like it's a CLAMP doujin. This is a really interesting project and I'd love to see this engine refined for something else, but this game is missing tact in design and writing that YA fiction direly needs.