The story of a Syrian woman attempting to seek asylum in certain parts of Europe and her husband still in their homeland texting back to her ideas and guidance, with paths and characters met based on accounts developers have heard from real refugees or on what was going on at the time in the locations you visit. The framing of the story showing both the journey and the loved ones left behind still in a war torn environment.
The interface uses a phone with text, pictures, emoji, as well as voice messages accompanying each of the 19 endings. The way it is sent up and with that feels like a real conversation. You can choose options that will lead your wife down different paths, to different countries, and to meeting different people but she also is treated as her own person and is very likable and will make her own decisions at times ignoring your advice or not telling you about more dangerous actions until they are over. Well written during the serious and grim moments of injured protesters, harassment, theft, scams, and less then welcoming locals but also in the more lighthearted times where humor or love between the couple is the focus or being used to help get through a tough situation, such as when an in joke develops between the two over their phone's overzealous auto-correct.
From what I've heard from other's playthroughs and saw on my own your path can make for a fairly easy trip, you might have to help your wife amputate the leg of a injured woman, your travels could lead to a protest at a closed border, walk over a former minefield, followed by a theft from a supposed friend and sneaking on top of an RV to make it into Italy, or could involve putting your trust in a cheap boat crossing run by mafia leading to more tragic results.
The only real negative is that it can make itself needlessly difficult or tedious to replay if you want to see the many alternate paths. You have no indication of what paths you took in the past nor do you have a way to quickly skip through slow conversations you'be already seen on subsequent playthrough. This can make the slower nature of the text and time skips that formerly worked very well to build tension or a feeling of realism now just take up a lot of time needlessly until you reach that new content. Remembering old paths and finding different routes could be made even more difficult by not even knowing what your message or sometimes possible emoji responses can lead to, with some not even looking like they might alter her path or knowing how she will react to it.
The interface uses a phone with text, pictures, emoji, as well as voice messages accompanying each of the 19 endings. The way it is sent up and with that feels like a real conversation. You can choose options that will lead your wife down different paths, to different countries, and to meeting different people but she also is treated as her own person and is very likable and will make her own decisions at times ignoring your advice or not telling you about more dangerous actions until they are over. Well written during the serious and grim moments of injured protesters, harassment, theft, scams, and less then welcoming locals but also in the more lighthearted times where humor or love between the couple is the focus or being used to help get through a tough situation, such as when an in joke develops between the two over their phone's overzealous auto-correct.
From what I've heard from other's playthroughs and saw on my own your path can make for a fairly easy trip, you might have to help your wife amputate the leg of a injured woman, your travels could lead to a protest at a closed border, walk over a former minefield, followed by a theft from a supposed friend and sneaking on top of an RV to make it into Italy, or could involve putting your trust in a cheap boat crossing run by mafia leading to more tragic results.
The only real negative is that it can make itself needlessly difficult or tedious to replay if you want to see the many alternate paths. You have no indication of what paths you took in the past nor do you have a way to quickly skip through slow conversations you'be already seen on subsequent playthrough. This can make the slower nature of the text and time skips that formerly worked very well to build tension or a feeling of realism now just take up a lot of time needlessly until you reach that new content. Remembering old paths and finding different routes could be made even more difficult by not even knowing what your message or sometimes possible emoji responses can lead to, with some not even looking like they might alter her path or knowing how she will react to it.