The Proposal

I begin this review with a prayer that the Overgod smites me not for my upcoming blasphemy.
I would like to applaud Alexp for coming up with this ridiculously elaborate proposal and his girlfriend (hopefully current wife) for being a good sport and going along with it.

Now on for the review. The puzzle part would probably be fun to those who like that sort of thing. It was still easy enough not to be frustrating while requiring some figuring out. I do think a lot of the items, such as the cell phone, could have just been things that you were assumed to have picked up when they were mentioned or things that the story mentions you picking up though. Having so many unnecessary items really added to the feeling of most clicking being pointless.

While I am on pointless clicking, many of the choices were completely pointless. It was not as if there were pages upon pages of dialogue that needed to be broken up, and the pointless dialogue choices and choices about whether to watch a movie or go on the Internet harmed the story rather than helped it. Choosing what random every-day thing to do is not the best use of the reader’s time.
Additionally, some choices it made no sense that I had the option to choose at all. If I am playing as a set character, especially one based off a real-life person, why should I be able to choose, say, how heavy of a sleeper I am? Even if this wasn’t about a real person, such a choice would be dumb unless it was stat-determining.

Also, LET HER IGNORE THE PHONE, DAMMIT. Have Dan stop by unexpectedly rather than have the phone ring for what would be hours in real life as I click the ignore option repeatedly. Then it has me go through the same dialogue option infinitely in an attempt to railroad me. Unfortunately, this story has been railroading far longer than I have been reading story-games, and after two minutes of rebellion against the plans of the author, I gave in. It would have been much better to have made Katrina give into Alex with some reasoning if she didn’t want Dan stopping over and thus remove the endless loops from the story.

The grammar was decent, and I did like sing the big picture of the statue thing and the shiny diamond, but overall, I think this story suffers heavily from rating inflation. I don’t know whether that’s out of fear of the Overgod, a reflection of a different time in site history, or both, but it is true.

It was like re-living the whole event over again. I am soooo happy and thankful that I am with the most amazing guy in the world. Thank you for all the hard work you did (and your friends of course)....this is truly something I will remember for the rest of my life. I love you!!

This was very cute and elaborate. Hope you two are still happily married!

p e r f e c t i o n

This was great! What a lovely puzzle trail and what a special trip this must have been for you both. I must admit, it brought back some great memories for me as I was also proposed to via puzzle trail and it brought back a lot of the feelings of excitement and mystery from ours! Thanks for creating this and hope you are both very happy.

best one ive read in the romance

That was fun - thank you! :)

I love this! This was super fun and adorable-I hope the two of you are happy together!

It was pretty good. I just was confused on some parts, though

Such a sweet story that made me want to know what was next every second. I love the ending too!