Prompt 4:
The importance of choice is particularly consequential in this story. Every passage in this is a choice, where the highlighted words are the choices the player makes in progressing the story in a direction that closes or widens the distance in the relationship between the narrator and a boy they're crushing on. Each passage provides a visceral opportunity to face the force of doubt that tries to convince you that its not worth taking the risk to pursue someone special. Although, as the player you are detached from the consequences of failure, the ambiguity of what the following passage could be if you accidently overstep and show too much interest is enough to feed the nervous demon in the back of your mind. I said 'fuck it', though, when I played through the game the first time and threw the shy choices to the wind because I wanted the narrator to get their chance to be with this boy that made them happy. Though, there are passages with only a single choice, and in contrast to the ones with multiple, these feel completely different. As the player, conversely, you experience the opposite of ambiguity, as most of these single choice passages, you are drifting along through the story with the unsatisfied narrator, each proceeding passage with less to anticipate until you get that choice again. The choices and lack thereof in this story emphasize the doubt and desire that battle in one's mind when contemplating romantic pursuit and the choices themselves directly influence what the player feels they can and can't anticipate for the narrator from their actions.