Who Am I: The Tale of Dorothy

Just wow. This game will grab a hold of you in ways you didn't expect. It's deep and forces you to consider the weight of your words. I'm not talking about Telltale's style of story-telling "the story is tailored to the choices you make" deal. I'm talking about "you jest at scars that never felt a wound" deal. And when it's all over, you feel bad when things go bad, and you feel joyous when things go right for the girls. Highly recommended for those who like to play games for the stories. Thumbs up!

This game isn't really special/complex in terms of gameplay (6 endings, 8 lines of story), but the 8 paths mix based on your progress and that makes replaying interesting. I didn't like the music though, it was too repetitive. Don't expect a long playing time either. What makes this game stand out it's the story. You're in the mind of a 14 year old who suffered childhood trauma and developed 3 other personalities. The more you play, the more you find out about Dorothy's story and what events created the 3 different personalities. The sotry and the dialogues are realistic and highly probable. It's a really good food for thought. I didn't cry. Not much, anyway. Had to call my friends to tell them I loved them, though.

Final Verdict: Buy on Deep Sale Only
This is text driven Virtual Novel (VN) with some dialogue choices to make that do have consequences. There is some nice artwork, but just portraits really. There is no voice acting or any cinematics. Ostensibly, you're a dream therapist who is out to help your patient with a multiple personality disorder.
You have limited turns to ask questions to your patient and her split personalities. Your job is to choose the best dialogue choices to get a desired outcome. One playthrough took me 36 minutes and, although I tried to get a good ending, I ended up getting a bad ending.
I liked some of the concepts in theory, but in practice they were not fleshed out. You do get a sense of what happened as you ask questions and by the end I kind of knew what happened to our patient. Unfortunately, I was unable to make the correct choices to get a desired result. I really have no interest to do another playthrough because I just didn't find it all that interesting depth wise.
Sale Price Rating 6/10. This VN touches upon some very serious adult issues and actually does a nice job of presenting the issues, but once you get past that, there's really not much else there.

I was doubtful about this game at first because I've played many that looked similar and ended up being disappointing. It was really amazing! I grew to care about Dorothy and her mental health, and also understand the different personae and how they developed. I enjoyed how Cindy was there as 'the perfect girl' who could be helpful but also dangerous, and Gretel is the greatest threat but underneath lie good intentions. It's a fine balance between keeping up Dorothy's self esteem while forcing her and her alters to face hard realities.

Who Am I: The Tale of Dorothy is a surprisingly touching take on the sensitive topic of mental disorder. As Dorothy's personal "dream counselor", your task is to talk with her and her different dissociative personalities in reaction to each successive day's events, the succession of which is partly random (and partly determined by previous interactions). The impact of your choices can be measured through several "meters" which are recapped at the end of each counseling session: Dorothy's personal stress (which needs to be kept in check) and the respective levels of integration of each one of the "kids" in her head (which you need to try to increase without Dortohy's stess skyrocketing).
While there certainly is a bit more to this simple counseling game than just reassuring Dorothy and her kids, I felt the most engaging part was the narrative itself and the way its different facets unfold based on your actions. There is a number of potential outcomes, both positive and negative, and each one will shed some light on different aspects of the young girl's personality and the trauma behind her troubled story. With the inevitable trial/error phase of getting acquainted with Dorothy and the gang inside her head, you'll need several playthroughs to get to the bottom of it all, but they're short enough that you likely won't mind it at all.
If any of this piqued even just a tiny bit of your curiosity, I highly recommand giving The Tale of Dorothy a go, especially for the price. Surely there's a number of more ambitious, better polished visual novels out there, but few will touch you like this one.

多罗茜，那是来自绿野仙踪的幸运女孩的名字，但这个故事里的女主角却被童年时的创伤所困扰、折磨，以至于分裂出了多个性格迥异的人格，6岁的天真无邪的爱丽丝，嗜血易怒的格雷特，精致理智的辛迪，连同忧郁胆怯的多罗茜自己，四个女孩轮流出现，把本应是平静美好的14岁生活搅的支离破碎。
故事起于心理咨询师“我”对多罗茜的拜访，在一次次的咨询中，要兼顾多罗茜的压力与其他副人格的整合度，帮助多罗茜走出昔日的阴影，让旧日的伤口慢慢愈合。
四个人格势均力敌，个性鲜明，每个人格都有自己专属的Good End和Bad End，天堂地狱，可能就在一念之间。
而故事的最后，如果你到达了True End，你会明白自己真正的身份，以及所肩负的使命。
Dorothy is the name of the lucky girl from the Wizard of Oz. But our heroine Dorothy in this story was plagued and tortured by the trauma of her childhood, so that she split into many different personalities.
Alice, a 6 years old girl who is childish and innocent, she could see fairy things that normal people can't realize.
Bloodthirsty Gretel, who is always aggressive and nasty, she wants to protect Dorothy.
Cindy, the popular icon among students, who hates "useless" Dorothy.
Together with the melancholy and timid Dorothy herself, the four girls took turns, shattering the supposedly peaceful and beautiful 14-year-old life of Dorothy.
The story begins with a visit to Dorothy by the counselor "I". During the repeated consultations, we need to keep a balance between Dorothy's pressure and the integration of other sub-personalities.
The four personalities are evenly matched and have distinct personalities. Each personality has its own Good End and Bad End. Heaven or hell, it all depends on your choices.
Only if you reach True End, you could totally understand who you are.

This was a nice surprise. It's small indie story driven game with simple mechanics but a deep and touching plot that present some rather mature themes. I got this game on sale and wasn't really expecting much but it turned out to be very well written. From the gameplay perspective, there isn't really much to it but it works fine: you act like a therapist for a girl with dissociative disorder and her three other personalities (representing anger, vanity and immaturity). On each session, you are given some background of what has happened lately and you chat with the girls accordingly. Since there are different lines of dialogues to chose from, there is much replay value (it took me less than 4 h to get all endings), and, since the story of why the other personalities came into existence is pretty interesting (it deals with depression, anger, psychological abuse, delusion, etc., but the story is better off left unspoiled) I would really recommend it.
Pros:
+ Interesting story (I liked the way they were presented in short bits of dialogue, and not in order)
+ Mature themes are addressed correctly
+ Replay value
+ Nice artwork (although there are few different images)
Cons:
- Limited gameplay mechanics
- No way to speak multiple dialogues
- Short (although it seems to have the right length)