Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance

Well done 10/10

Ok, the two first parts are not so bad but not so impressive either (The first part is more like a compilation of short story of what could have been, the real storyline implies romancing the monarch). This title potentially has a lot of flaws depending on your tastes and has a peculiar style of narration. It is minimalistic in its description but that's enough. It alernates between a succession of short description with interactions or a big long passage to advance the storyline until the next choice. The setting is interesting and well presented to the reader : it crafts your attachment to the main character progressively by adding cicumstances one after the other. The third part, on the other hand, impressed me much and was very surprising. It kept me on the edge and felt really immersive. It does a fine work of making you feel for your character, what happens to him and with which character. The tension never stop building scene after scene, detail after detail until the climax and the resolution of it all. It feels a little short, fast paced and rushed, but that's still satisfactory because the whole title is like that all along so you get used to it. In some way, it leaves much to your imagination but do give you enough material to have a really clear idea of what happens and how it happens. I never found the description lacking. Just... short, as is the game in itself. The third part left me with quite a rush and a good feeling. So thumbs up. PS : one of the specific is that the game feels better from the perspective of a woman. Really, it's not an affair of pronouns that will change things. That didn't bothered me though. You can still enjoy it from the man perspective but you'll have to get over some specific choice in the storytelling that were obviously intended to be perceived as a woman at least in the common conception. Not a problem for an open mind.