Definitely enjoyed the tale, but I struggled to finish it due to grammar and flow.
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Adherence to the Theme | #7 | 3.964 | 3.964 |
Concept & Originality | #24 | 3.607 | 3.607 |
Overall | #25 | 3.440 | 3.440 |
Flow & Clarity | #30 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
The sparse language in the opening paragraphs of the story was very effective in setting a mood and tone, but continuing in that voice throughout rendered the resulting prose almost impossible to follow with any sort of ease. In particular, during the flashback scene, we do not know which brother speaks first, which makes their conversation frustrating to parse. The use of passive-voice sentence fragments ("Words served as swords.", "The screaming began.") makes the next sequence confusing. I could not follow the action during that scene at all. I did like the use of twins as a physical and philosophical exploration of the reflection theme; that was well done.
Briliant! The tale of the twin princes is my favourite part of OSP lore and you absolutely nailed its feeling on this story.
I really like the tone of the story and characters you are going for here. A brother morning his twin whilst remembering their relationship is a tricky thing to do right with any word count but you certainly succeeded in bringing over that tone here.
If I was just to give any advice it would be that it could have done with batch of proof reading or even simply reading it aloud to yourself to see how it sounds. The actual events were a tad difficult to follow and I had to reread a couple of bits to click what you meant. The flow and clarity would benefit greatly from that.
Despite that, I loved the tone you aimed for and the imagery of a reflected twin's face is always a powerful one. Well done!
Good story! was a little hard to follow but for the most part: a very deep tale
loved the interaction with the servant. Had a bit of a hard time following the action.
I really like your character descriptions, and how you portray the complex relationship between the brothers.
The story itself could probably have used a bit more editing---typos, capitalization issues, mismatched verb tenses, and fragmentary sentences made it a bit hard to focus on the story itself. Also, while your brevity is to be applauded, varying your sentence lengths can be very effective in making your writing more engaging.
But your use of reflection to draw out the relationship between the brothers, and the development of the story itself, were both very well done!
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