2014-11-22
Completing my top three picks from this year's Interactive Fiction Competition, Transparent is one of those games which really would have deserved to place better, reaching only a respectable, but not spectacular 11th place. I initially played the original version, and that is what my review is mostly based on. Now, launching the game again to take some screenshots, it seems it has been toned down quite a bit already, most likely due to general feedback. My usual advice applies – don't take that too far, people!
Sticking to your original vision is always a good idea in general. Listening to advice and keeping an open mind for improvement suggestions is a great quality, of course, too, but there should be a strict limit. There will always be whiners complaining about everything. Trying to please them all will never be possible. So how has the game developed in subsequent versions: for better or for worse? You decide!
Mr Creosote