WALLS offers excellent drama masterfully and swiftly established with believable and relatable characters and well crafted dialogue. While that core is really strong a handful of aspects prevent it from reaching its true potential.
Most important in this are the audiovisual elements. Though everything is of pretty good quality, their implementation leaves something to be desired. Sound effects are often too low in comparison with a sparse and loud musical tracks, making the whole audio part awkward and uneven. The blocking is another very inconsistent element here, with characters sprites that appear on-screen without following an internal logic and some transitions failing to properly complement the time-space progression of the story.
Another problem, though minor, is the pacing. Most of the build up is paced perfectly but the climax and the falling action go by a little too fast. Readers don’t get proper time to linger in these pretty strong emotions which curbs their impact. There’s almost a rushed feel once we enter “act three.”
Still, I can safely recommend this one for that great core idea. Dialogue in particular works masterfully to build these characters and deliver most of the emotional impact. Even if it doesn’t get all 5 stars, it is honestly one of my favourite Novembears.