This concept was EXTREMELY interesting!! I was reminded of the times when I looked through my old school papers and nostalgically recalled old memories, doodles of OCs i had long forgotten, etc.
Strengths:
I liked the use of the security questions that force you to look at the files... the presence of the questions at the end feel like a quiz from your past self
Improvements:
My guy, there are soooo many ways to expand upon this concept and they are all interesting. Here is just a couple I've come up off the top of my head:
- "Combining" memories - i.e, if you have a specific song playing and are viewing a specific file, then the main character says something that they remember
- Interacting with people on said old laptop - what would Sam say if you suddenly messaged them from your old account? What memories would you extract from that conversation?
Did you wrong your old friends in some way? Do you find a conversation that ended on a sour note and they blocked you? All interesting questions.
Technical issues:
I couldn't double click the desktop icons to open them, i had to do something like "click and drag" while double clicking?? idk just a bit of UI wonkiness.
But please please PLEASE expand upon this!!