Ishmael

bad

Ishmael, bir çocuğun gözünden görülen sürekli yerinden edilme ve şiddet döngülerini konu alan, multimedyayla zenginleştirilmiş kısa bir hiper metin öyküsüdür. Okumak/oynamak yaklaşık 15 dakika sürer. ismail sek sek sekerek ismail ismail rastık çekerek ismail ...

This feels more exploitative than anything. The biggest sign is the completely unsubtle cover photo which is just some random child. Lots of "well meaning" political pieces only exist for their own sake and not to be enjoyable, or even truly uncomfortable. Agreeing with the message of something isn't the end of appreciation. It doesn't woo the user into discomfort or do anything new. It's free though. So I can't be too harsh. As a fun random project for the creator? This succeeds. As a piece of IF that showcases a knowledge in IF like the RPS review indicates? Eh... I think the political nature of it is going to make people more critical. If this was about Pineapple on Pizza or Birds wearing hats it would have positive reviews. When discomforting the audience I think more caution needs to be taken - and I don't think exploitation (like Exploitation Films, I don't mean this too harshly) of sensitive topics is a shortcut to well done discomfort. If I could leave a neutral review I would, but I don't think I want to see more games take sensitive topics as a shortcut to quality. I don't think picking cutesy topics is a good shortcut either. I think games like these, and comparing them to other pulp, is a good look into how Steam reviews as a community exist. I think my actual takeaway from this is actually that I'd like to see something more fleshed out than this from the same creator. Thanks for making this free, I want to check your other games out now.

I am unsure of how to review this. It's more of an artistic statement than an actual game. My calling it that is not an endorsement regarding how well that vision was manifested though. As someone who studied military history and has more than a passing understanding of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I find it deceptive to showcase these things in such a simplistic way. Regardless of the creator's intentions this obviously has political intent so I would, indeed, call it propaganda and propose that it hopes to take advantage of the shallowness of it's presentation to move the player into thinking about the topic in a certain way. I'm uncomfortable recommending it due to that. The actual gameplay aspect of this is akin to those Twine games from a few years back. There's an illusion of choice but ultimately the main story thread is the same. It's short and I found it too generic to be truly interesting. I have to give this a "no". I appreciate the artistic intent but the morality of this game coupled with the lack of actual game-like attributes makes me disinclined to recommend.

Well... that was lost 17 minutes of my life.. It tries to tell a story. But there is no point. It just ends. No twist, no message. Its pointless.

♥♥♥♥ Israel!!!!!! FREE PALESTINE