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Scariest thing in the comp, I'm sure!

I want to think about it more, but this seemed like a really, really good ratio of text-to-choice! It felt propulsive, it didn't feel too click-heavy, and I'm not sure how much is the passage length and how much is the writing, but this jammed a lot of good exploratory dialogue about work and Brexit and anti-immigrant tensions, wanting to help out while also just trying to get by, it never dragged, and it introduced a bunch of interesting characters!

I think I lean towards it looking weird not to put periods at the end of sentence-long links, and there were other dialogue links that just ended in commas which was odd.

But yes, lovely!

Ending I got:
Christine made a friend. How lovely!

There might have been even more joy in store for her, if things had worked out a little differently...

Does a great job mimicking the style and cadence of a cheerful recipe blog. I'll admit I skim a lot of the memoir-y preambles in recipe blogs (just give me the ingredients list!), so I did skim some of it here as well. That might especially go for the secret ingredient page (I found it w/o hints, go me), which was very effective but could also trim some fat, since that's the one that needs to land. But that's maybe Le Grand Guignol nit-picking!

Playing this in Firefox, and the images were getting vertically squashed fyi. Fine in Chrome.

Quite polished, liked the setting and premise! Some of the middle tasks did start feeling similar, since they all sort of went the same way, but the last couple changed things up nicely. I liked the idea for the guessing puzzle, though I did also have trouble getting it (Didn't have the article). Felt bad for the Samurai! Liked the ending!

Bonuses I got:
Confess your true feelings.
Give the exorcist a bath.

Very neat game! Liked the ghost a lot, tone/writing, and the multiple endings. Seemed well implemented. I'd already thrown everything into the bowl before I found the recipe, so though I did bake it right, I think I ended up with a score somewhere in the 70s? I played this a while ago, so that might be wrong.