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Pink Narcissus rated Manifesto Symphonia: First Movement

A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Manifesto Symphonia: First Movement is... I've got nothing. It's what, less than 2000 words long currently, and the first third consists of a manifesto of an empty ideology that reads like what I'd find scrawled in a notebook after having an episode of psychosis. Name-dropping creators (like "the SilverStone author") in a thank you note felt like a hit list. It uses a lot of Big Words, of which maybe half the writer actually seems to know what they mean. Crucially, when we get into what could be considered a story, the protagonist has been accepted into a youth symphony, which unless is an in-universe term is not what that means. I think the writer meant a youth orchestra, that, you know, may in fact PLAY a symphony. The game is named after the concept of a symphony???

The rambling manifesto paints up a rebellious auteur artistic movement which I guess meant numerous 67 jokes and ending not on a cliffhanger, but midsentence of a story that didn't even have time to show as much as an ankle to attract attention. I don't know why it was released in this state (or at all). If I came out of this with anything it was concern.