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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #21 | 4.684 | 4.684 |
| Overall | #145 | 3.763 | 3.763 |
| Originality | #287 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Gameplay | #296 | 3.105 | 3.105 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
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- The game looks great, but could have used just a basic bgm. Nothing fancy just something. The name literally makes no sense, the gameplay is not balanced at all, enemies just attack already beaten characters over and over, obviously this needs more work. The visuals were good and the combat concept seems interesting but needs work.
What do you like about your game?
I sucked a lot at graphic design and UI, so I'm glad I was able to improve some in a couple weeks.
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The art is really phenomenal great job
At this point I've watched this a couple times, admired the characters and saw how broken some of the gameplay is, but I'm late to the party on actually playing and reviewing the game. Fortunately, plenty of other comments have hit the main things (insane grind, no checkpoints [understandable for a jam]) and I know you've already fixed the "enemy attacks dead people bug"
I think the best thing about this game is that it breathes life into a 'VN-character' archetype (despite it not being a VN). You have kind of demoed a system that allows you to learn about and connect to a character outside of massive walls of text. I think if you wanted (and on possibly a different project), you could strike a really amazing balance between VN story elements and this combat/characterization system.
Congrats on the release.
Pretty good presentation, art is super detailed and pretty to look at. I like RPGs and I like dystopian cyberpunk cities with wacky neon colored characters. The only issue I had was that the gameplay was kind of lacking. It served it's purpose I suppose but it just didn't seem that fun to me. It also took me a while to realize that you can use the other party members, which I guess I should have noticed sooner but yeah, I think a small tutorial thing that teaches you how to actually play would have been nice, though I did figure it all out eventually. And of course, I'm sure many have pointed it out, but this game seriously needs some music and sound design, or at the very least sound effects for when you deal damage or are delt damage (and hey, if you ever plan on making something like this again or wanna expand this game and you need a composer, I could totally whip up some fire cyberpunk beats for ya if you'd like!) Overall, pretty good submission.
this wins the award for best title, even if it doesn’t seem very relevant to the game itself. it’s just a brilliant pun. it’s a shame there’s no audio, but the art is very impressive! when it comes to the gameplay, I found it a bit tedious to spam-click through all the combat text, and everything ended up feeling a bit slow. that said, I liked how my choices shaped the party — there are some cool mechanics at play here!
wow, the art in this game is beautiful! its amazing the quality that you were able to put out within this 14 day period! the character portraits and stills look phenomenal, with each of their designs looking distinct! love the backgrounds too, the battle background especially looks mesmerizing, capturing this cyberpunk pink neon tinted nightlife, looks insanely good! the UI also looks incredible, reminds of a lot of the design sensibilities in some gacha games (maybe Arknights?), really good stuff here!
the gameplay is fun too, i can see some really nice potential here! love the attack distance mechanic, creates an interesting dynamic between how each of the characters play depending on where the enemy is currently at! also can potentially force players not to rely on a hard carry (though Tear really carried me throughout a lot of the fights xd). the combat would be elevated even higher if there were some feedback SFXs to the attacks or navigating through the UI and some BGM (but its fine cuz the game jam deadline xd). one nitpick though is that i wish that i understood what the shard rewards did for my attacks specifically before picking them up. i can intuit it based on their descriptions, but when the attacks show specific details on how they affect the battle using number values, it would be nice for the shards to have the same treatment.
overall, really nice submission, had a lot of fun with it, great work!
Cool game! Graphics and UI are really great. Sound and UX are a bit lacking. Also, it seems a bit hard to progress if you don't understand all the mechanics from the start, and trying everything again from the first combat is also not really viable. Maybe some checkpoints could've been a nice improvement. But nice look and feel nonetheless. And I really enjoyed the diversity of the abilities and the turn-based combat system. I was trying to accomplish something similar in my game, but unfortunately, it was pretty linear and boring in the end, your's is much more entertaining.
It’d help alot if there was some obvious indication as to what attacks worked at what stance, like a gun/knife icon.
Amazing artwork, the game looks great! Was lacking in sound though, even just adding some music would have been great on this.
Thank you! Was gonna learn a DAW but ran out of time :( (I have this weird mandatory self-inflicted obligation to only use assets made by me)
Cool art, I saw a bug, dead characters even if you rest, is still marked as dead but they still have hp, the first 3 of my characters died then rested for the 7th day, when only six died, my game ended.
Also Weixian hates mielle so much and still hits her even though mielle is dead x.x
IT'S THE RANPO GUY HOLY SHIT!!!! RUNNING IN CIRCLES RN AHHHHHH
Ohh you only get 4 life points in total hahaha. When 4 deaths total happen, then you lose.
SAJGNBSJDHBGDSJHGB NOOO I USED THE WRONG GODOT FUNCTION I FIXED IT AHAHHAA BUT THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME, THAT'S HILARIOUS
The art is really nice, but the game has some notable flaws. Tear is broken and I just spammed Aimed shot lol, the others didn't do much damage. Some audio would have been nice, the dead characters were attacked and it eventually turned into a aim shot clicker game. Maybe ability cooldown would balance things out! Also double clicking in the intro cutscene instead of single clicking is a bit different than I am used to. Other than that cool submission!
Helloooo! Think I saw you in a stream hahaha! Thank you for the suggestions, I'll definitely look into balancing things post game! Is the double clicking to finish the text and then skip to the next text, or you need to double click once the text is finished to move on? Thanks again, and I look forward to checking out your game later :D
Oh it might actually be that the double click is to skip, but I remember the text being fully displayed when I was double clicking.
The art is beautiful for 14 days. While the character were slightly unbalanced (tear op) the gameplay was solid. All it needs is a soundtrack. Also would have loved more story and dialogue between the characters - there's a lot of potential. Overall very cool
Thank you!! I sacrificed my soul for it ahaha. For sure, I'm planning on working on this game a lot more + getting my friend to make a couple soundtracks! Thanks again for the nice comment!
Full marks! This is a gorgeous game. In addition to the design, the battle balance seems really well done.
I'd love to hear some background music for this. You might hit up VGML on discord to find a composer.
A really beautiful entry!
A rare comment giving me feedback that the game is balanced haha. I appreciate it!
I'll check it out! And I'll def check your game out later too. Thank you so much for your comment!
I'm grass
Joking aside, the game is beautiful
The UI/UX is nice too (even if the progress bar feels a little flat next to everything, but that's a detail)
Wouldn't have seen and known about the "first" without you
Didn't really feel like the crystals had that much of an impact
Loved the characters and the world, would have liked to have more dialogues and narration with these graphics that look like ones from a visual novel
Some bugs, but helpful ones, so I won't complain
I felt like the left character didn't have much purpose except for the shield
The abilities are nice and the ranged / melee mechanic helped in making each character needed
Even tho there were a lot of characters, starting with a few skills helped in having a nice progression curve
Probably have to make the boss a bit less tanky and less of a "you die in one round" boss
YOU'RE GRASS 🤯 (I don't know why you can't just type emojis into itch alone this is terrible)
Thank you for all the feedback in this comment as well as on stream! It definitely gives me a lot to work on post-jam, and I got a lot of tips for future games too. Also, stream was super fun, I'll be tuning in for more. Thanks again, I appreciate your feedback a lot! I'll play your game this weekend when hw is over aanjfjdsnjg
made a version where the enemies target properly that absolutely does not need to be played (especially for ratings) 🫡
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jhmohy77-lj5vuOq7a0nE7VGoDyy7JKe/view?usp=shari... (windows)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vbiluGuQ-zDdbVELNDYCvSDQ1wiby22A/view?usp=shari... (mac)
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YOU ALREADY KNOW...THE TITLE AND ENDING AND THE STORY, HELPPPP I'M SO GLAD YOU ADDED THAT TO THE MORE FINALIZED VER. FOR THIS GAME JAM IT REALLY ADDS TO THE OVERALL GAMEPLAY AS AN INTRODUCTION AND END. ALSO ADDING A TUTORIAL, GOTTA ADD THAT TO THE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE CHECKLIST ✅ BECAUSE PREVIOUS GAMER INTUITION CAN ONLY GO SO FAR SOBBB ME AND RAIN WERE BOTH KINDA EXPLAINING HOW THINGS WORK TO OUR PPL /SILLY. BUT OFC OFC IN TWO WEEKS THIS IS HELLA IMPRESSIVE AND AFTER THE JAM, IF YOU REALLY DO GO BACK TO IT OMGGGGGG IMMA EAT IT UP LIKE FETTUCCINE 🍝🍝🍝 MORE CHARACTERS, MORE STORYLINE, MORE EVERYTHING ASDJFLKDSFM <33333333
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AAJNFDSKNJKSDGNJSDJGNDSJKGNDSGN I SPEDRAN THAT STUFF SO HARD HOLY SHITTTT LMAOAOAOAOO I WISH I COULD'VE POLISHED IT MORE NOOOOOOO. YES YES UR SO RIGHT I DEF NEED TO ADD A TUTORIAL. I WILL GET TO WORK ON THAT AS SOON AS SCHOOL IS OVER SOBBBB. U AND RAIN ARE THE GOATS FR OMG. THANK YOU PEEGEE YOU ARE LITERALLY SO EPIC THIS GAME ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE OF YOU I WAS LITERALLY READY TO GIVE UP A HUNDRED TIMES WHILE TRYING TO MAKE IT BUT YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT PULLED ME THOUGH 😭😭😭 YOU'RE SO SUPPORTIVE OF ALL OF US OMG I HOPE I AM NOT UNDERSTATING HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE IT. EVERYONE NEEDS A PEEGEESQUEEGEEE IN THEIR LIVES THANK YOU X10000000
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The art is stunning! Well done for 14 days! Sadly, I didn’t have any audio during gameplay, but I am not sure if that’s because I was running it on Linux with a compatibility layer. The attacks on the characters felt rather unbalanced, which led me to rely on Tear only. Overall, though, I had a lot of fun playing it!
Thank you!! Ahaha there's no audio because I was planning on learning a DAW last minute to make my own tunes, but I didn't end up having enough time and had to bug fix until the last minute.
about tear... I know he's way too op I think I've nerfed him 20 times in playtesting and he's still strongAnyway, thank you a lot for the feedback! I'm glad you had fun, and I can't wait to try your game too! Before I do though I just gotta say, the art looks absolutely amazing in yours as well holy shit.
Wow this was such a beautiful looking game! I was so impressed by all the artwork it was a real treat!
The whole system and Ui was very impressive, I really liked how it was all set up and how the missions continued. The game kept surprising me with each character design! They all looked so cool!
Notes:
-I did find a bug were the enemies would keep attacking an already dead character so that gave me an advantage and I was not complaining when I was winning cause it was hard sometimes.
-Also I wish there was some way to have the option to rest after every combat, cause going in weakned from another fight was tough as nails, but I understand the idea behind it! Maybe have an economy system that allows you to pay for rest? Idk some idea that came to my mind.
-The characters were so cool I would have loved to hear more about them, maybe some story telling or monologues from the villains, I think would have been so interesting, maybe is just the writer inside me asking for more cause it was so good.
Great job overall for being solo this was monumental!!
Hiii thank you SO much for taking the time to write such an extensive post on my jam!! I really really appreciate all the feedback <3
Yess there are some bugs I gotta squash. I plan on updating the game after the jam to fix em :) And actually, the first version of the game did have a rest after every combat! But since certain characters only appear on certain days, I had to change it (for this jam specifically) so you actually got to go through some of the fights hahaha. Also, being able to skip through every day until the final boss might've caused some problems. I really like the payment idea, though! I think I'll implement that in the next version of the game.
WRITERS UNITE. I gotta try your game omg, I saw the thumbnail and was instantly curious about it. I'm 120% going to be checking it out later.
The characters do all have pretty in depth lore actually :) I'll definitely take your feedback and try to give some more story spotlight next time! I'm so happy you're interested haha, it means a lot to me. A lot of the enemies are actually my friends' ocs which all exist in the same world, so they'd be able to provide some detail as well (Peegee and Rei for example, who've both commented here).
Thank you again! Your comment means a lot to me 🥹🙏
So the last boss does damage to all 4 players/characters kinder unfair in my honest opinion since all the enemy/fights only did damage to one at a time, the boss had no reason to do so much damage to all at once, I also bet the game using only TEAR (AIMED SHOT) and (STAB) from MIELLE you can beat the game pretty easily I finished the game on my first try. art was nice clean the colours purples, pinks, blues worked well good work on the art style, but the game was really easy, if you just spammed 2 moves.
Thanks for the feedback! I thought the final boss might've been too easy otherwise, but I guess it is a far jump up. The game itself, as you said, can be fairly easy if you find a working strategy so hahaha. I'm glad you liked the art :)
The art is cool
Thank you!!
Love the game! Using Six I shapeshifted into Leon and was able to go through the last few enemies pretty quick. I one-shotted the last enemy with shapeshifted flurry strike. I wonder what exactly does the trust catefory affect? I had mine at -100% and all seemed fine lol
Yooo!! Thank you for playing! Omg, I didn't know a one shot was possible with him (and those two more specifically). Thanks for letting me know HAHA I love hearing about people's strategies! Trust is supposed to affect the pass rate. At -100%, you would probably always end your turn on that character loololl