A Neutral review for the game

[misslaurainthewoods]

This game does NOT deserve a negative review, but I can't say it should have a positive one, either.

Here is the main problem: there are only two options to reply to the emails.

There are two different steam achievements. One for getting all the good advice, and one for all the bad. It's spread out across all playthroughs, so...

You don't have to read the text. You don't have to do anything, except go down the list of possible emails, and make sure you click on response 1 the first time, and response 2 the second.

That. Is. It.

If there was just a little more detail to your possible responses, and there were at least five to choose from, this would make it feel like reading the email was important, and that your response actually mattered.

As it it, it just felt like a click one or two, and remember which one you did last time. I got the game on sale for $2.72. It took me 55 minutes to get all Steam achievements, I probably wouldn't have bothered to play it past the first ten minutes, if I weren't chronically ill, and so chronically out of things to entertain myself with while being chair-ridden.

Just a little more effort in the player response choices would have changed this, I think. The emails from people were a good variety, and the sort of thing you'd see in an Agony Aunt column, and there was a good effort at giving a different writing style to the different people. Decoding the text message for the "Old Dad" was fun.

There simply wasn't enough for the player to do, and no need to think through a good response.

[Faye Strawberry]

Thank you, sincerely, for taking the time to write your views on Dear Agony Aunt. I appreciate it :)

I'm really happy to hear that you felt the writing was a strong point. I'm primarily a writer and would love to make a living writing games, so hearing what you felt would improve the game is valuable to me.

Dear Agony Aunt was my first ever project and, although it is flawed, I'm proud of it and have no plans to make substantial changes. Nevertheless, I will take on board your thoughts as I focus on the next project. Thank you ^_^