Light Years Apart Reviews

That's a weird one. There isn't much in terms of a "game" here; not at least in a sense that we are accustomed to in the Choices. Your char's personality is pretty much set in from a start - you can only change name and gender; most of the story and "decisions" you make also seems to be hard scripted (in a "I guess I have no choice..." way") up until the very end... and even then it's more of a binary "will I suddenly ally myself to bad guys that were trying to kill me" type of choice. ...but the thing is - that story game is forcing on you is, like, really good! Like you are a fun, easy going space contrabandist trying to hide behind the mask of humor from the dark past of being a spy-turned-assasin! And the world is, like, governed by two rival ANTROPOLOGICAL schools, who funded colonies to study extreme forms of human behavior! And there are weird twin siblings hiding from the government you are trying to save! And sassy flight-computer! And the writing is, like, really good! I am reluctantly giving this a thumb up; mostly because I cannot force myself to give a thumb down to a work that is so clearly a labour of love. But I really hope that an author will move on to a more traditional writing, for which she clearly has a much greater talent than for game design - even in such a text-dominated format.