Intriguing and atmospheric, though I feel it misses the mark in terms of the message. The story seems to suggest a correlation between Marianne's purported strangeness and adults not paying attention to her, and, having been a strange child myself, that didn't feel especially true to me. The experience was also made frustrating by the slow text speed, which meant a lot of waiting for options to appear, especially since most of the options return the player all the way to the start. Given that the only options were to continue or not continue the story, by the end it felt as though the interactivity wasn't adding anything. For all that, though, I was hooked enough to replay it until I reached the ending, and the narrative style and presentation were consistently good up to the end.
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Hi, thank you so much for the review! I didn't have time to playtest the typewriter effect's timing, so the feedback is definitely welcome :) For the first part, Marianne's story comes from personal experience—I was also a weird child (as most of us in writing were, I would assume lol). I realized a bit too late that I shouldn't have made it quite as personal, so I apologize if that affected your experience with this short story!
Thanks again for the feedback.