You, With Me - A Kinetic Novel Reviews

[h1]You, With Me is not really a novel approach to visual novels, and not really kinetic, but it is fortunately one of the most emotionally moving video games that I have experienced. [/h1] I don't really want to provide any spoilers, so I will just say that I cried a few times. It's a beautiful tale of life and death, love and pain, family and faults, faith and doubt. Speaking of faults, gramatically and editorally the text of the novel has many errors. But, these do not effect the comprehension of the plot. Although I have no idea of what the background is of the author, it comes across as written and translated by a foreign language speaker. I've read quite a bit of books in other languages, with my own poor translating skills, so I know for a fact there is great value in sharing a story that you would have never experienced had you not been willing to overlook the different grammar structure and errors. The photos are a nice addition. The text is controllable and moves with a mouse click, and you can scroll the mouse wheel to reverse the text should you miss something. The music is not overwhelming. It seems to come and go at important moments. The price is very good. You won't regret three to four hours in this story. [h1]There are no errors in the story itself. It is definitely touching and memorable. I highly recommend this story for anyone who enjoys visual novels. [/h1]

While I liked Afterthought Studios’ previous works, unfortunately I cannot recommend this title. I wish that Steam had a neutral option on times like this, but since there’s not, my answer is “no”. Also, like it says on the title, this is a kinetic novel meaning that there are no choices and you only read the text. [b]The story:[/b] Jacob is an ordinary man and lives with his wife, Lisa, in Singapore. Everything is pretty much chill until Jacob finds out he’s really sick and will die in a few months. The stress that the couple goes through (especially Jacob) is intense, which makes Jacob act kinda like an a-s-s to his wife. Of course that his behavior is bad, but well, he’s dying and people tend to lose it. I thought that his behavior was very “human”, not the “everything will be alright” kind of cliché (at least at first). He’s a guy who worries about the future of his wife, and he already accepted the fact that he won’t be around for too long. I could feel his frustration of wanting to prepare for the worst, and Lisa acting hopeful bothered him. [b]Lisa:[/b] You know, at first I actually felt sorry for her. [spoiler]But after I found out that she stopped taking birth control pills on purpose and NEVER told Jacob about it… That was really s*hitty from that woman. Any sympathy I had for this character was instantly GONE when I found out that. I know it was supposed to be a dramatic part of the story, but really, it was just awful.[/spoiler] All she did to make Jacob fell better was flushed down through the toilet because of that crappy act she pulled. Overall, the story is interesting but I think that its execution wasn’t good. There’s several grammar mistakes (I’m not a native English speaker tho, but they bothered me a little), the narration isn’t that good, and there’s the layout; there are no paragraphs on this novel, it’s just a plain text wall without the proper space. It gets tiring to read, and the text even invades the bottom of the window, surpassing the text box: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=925747652 4/10. Still, I wish the best of luck to the developers with their next releases.