Great work for such a small time frame (and cheekily self aware about it, too). The visual aesthetic is really well realized, every scene looks great. The writing feels a bit overlong to me, but that might just be personal taste. I hope you can continue the story sometime, it leaves a good first impression!

Excellent narrative game, amazing art and music, Very enjoy  to play it. Cyberpunk atmosphere is compelling, one of the best games I've played during the whole jam:)

I almost forgot that I wanted to post my concluding review here ...

I finally managed to finish the game without encountering any bugs. Since all my issues and nitpicks like the audio mix and the sometimes over-detailed texts have already been addressed by other players (and acknowledged by you as well), I'll just skip them. I'm sure most, if not all, will be tackled in the extended version.

I'm totally into cyberpunk and I absolutely love noir / hardboiled detective stuff. Which means this is right up my alley. Although I can clearly see the influences, it really feels like its own thing. The graphics convey the noir atmosphere effortlessly. They look stunning, one of the best parts of the game. Music is great as well. And I'm really surprised by the quality of the voice acting. It's much better than I imagined it would be.

This is such a delight! And quite impressive for an one man show. Really looking forward to the extended version. And I genuinely hope that this won't be your last foray into this genre(s). Keep up the good work! :)

The art and audio combine to make an incredible atmosphere. I really like the backgrounds and the way the mouse scrolls the perspective. There are some really nice small graphical touches, like the rain landing on the top of the car. The voice acting is over the top impressive, though the audio levels are a little off between some of the characters. It almost feels a little out of place for the narrator to speak, just my personal opinion.

As some others have stated, the writing does feel very heavy-handed at times, both a good and bad thing lol The writing bleeds over between characters a bit, for example the street dweller and Ethan's letter feel like they are written in the same tone as the narrator, an almost indistinct style compared to each other.  Certain longer dialogs might feel a little less daunting if they were maybe broken up into smaller segments rather than delivered in paragraphs.

One small bug I noticed in the inside of the theater, the hotspot on the left legitimately says 'Hotspot2d' on mouse hover lol Some tooltips/descriptions in the inventory would be welcome. At times it almost seemed like the 'dual click' system was unnecessary, like you could have accomplished everything with just one mouse input.

Nice touch with the puzzle rambling at the car though, that was very funny ^_^ Some very funny moments throughout, I legitimately got scared and laughed when Alex yelled 'Ah shit' after discovering a hole in the pipes. All in all this has some incredible style and vibes, and very impressive amount of content for the duration of the jam. Best of luck continuing the project!

Very atmospheric. I loved the beautiful graphics and the soundscape you created. The writing was extremely noir-detective-like.^^ For my liking you went a tiny bit overboard with it, but I still had fun.
Cool game.

When I was a kid, I loved Rise of the Dragon. The cyberpunk vibe, the detailed art, the color schemes, the beautiful professional voice acting. This game recalls a lot of the things I loved when playing that game, but honestly Shadows of Serenity is probably more immersive.

The world building is great. The backgrounds are incredibly detailed, and the developer employs a ton of onscreen text and voiced dialogue, sometimes intentionally exaggerating the language to give it that pulp feel. This is for people who love hardboiled fiction, like me!

There are solid puzzles breaking things up, and they have some pretty classic adventure game logic. My favorite was setting up a bunch of pipes to generate steam on a mirror, some very cool 90s point and click thinking.

Excited to play whatever expanded version of this comes in the future!

The art and music and writing is top notch! I def want to play more.

Loved the atmosphere in this one, it had great graphics, music and voice acting. The story is intriguing for sure, although by then end of it I still wasn't sure exactly what was happening. Hope you continue working on it because I'd love to find out. The writing is great, a bit long but still great and I like the funny moments when the game is self-aware of the fact. I enjoyed the puzzles although I wasn't sure why I was doing those puzzles in the bathroom until the reveal (maybe I missed something in the letter).

My only suggestion would be to add item descriptions in the inventory.

Overall, a really good entry. Great job!

A mighty impressive first person adventure with stylistic chunky 2D art, audio design, and voice acting. I overlooked a few hotspots due to the overall lack of contrast but that can easily be tweaked on the back end. Really reminded me of Norco in how slick and stylish it is, I would play this as a full game! 

What a great game! I love it. The story is amazing and it really captures the reader's attention. You always want to know more. The dialogues were very good and felt real. I also really like that the game is voiced, which combined with the music, really adds to the atmosphere.

The art is incredible! How did you manage to draw this number of drawings and still maintain the quality?!

You created so much content during only two weeks and all of it was high quality. The game was pretty difficult, but I managed to solve the problems in the end. The puzzles were very fun though!

I discovered some bugs and I hope that informing of them will be helpful:

• "Takahasi" is sometimes written instead of "Takahashi" in the computer entries for Serial Number and Olivia. (The voice is also incorrect)
• The icons for the pipes are really small.
• If I turn off full screen in the theater (with the code machine), then I will see a character with long brown hair on the right side. I cannot attach a picture unfortunately.
• Inside the theater, after that happened, hovering the mouse over the exit to the left displays "Hotspot2D". 

The ending screams that there will be a continuation, so I truly hope that you will continue working with it. As I have written above, the game is really good. Good job!

Great game, but eventually I got stuck figuring out who the Shadow was, in the comments you said there were footprints, but I didn't look until after I quit :(. Besides that I am unsure if the strange woman always on screen was a bug or not, and I think when I investigated the photo it gave the wrong audio. Besides that I really enjoyed this. As a question, were the voice lines AI generated? Not to be offensive, I just thought the stranger outsides voice sounded like it could be sometimes.

Unfortunately, I ran into a bug. After I inserted the pipes, they reappeared in my inventory. And whenever I click on the already used pipes in the cabinet, the game tells me that I have to insert them all first. Which I have already done.

Apart from that, I liked it very much. Fantastic atmosphere and it looks great. I'll definitely try the game again in the next few days.

I think you've achieved something extraordinary. The writing and aesthetic demonstrate a real love and understanding of cyberpunk and noir genres. I loved some of the Chandler-esque pulpy descriptions. The guy sitting outside the office is an incredible character too, and the techno disease is an excellent sci-fi concept. Not sure if that's an established thing within Gibson or Shadowrun or something, or if that's your own concept, but I've never seen it before and I loved it. 

Unfortunately however, I did get stuck. I'm fairly certain it wasn't me, but I guess you'd have to let me know. I'll put a warning to anyone else reading, if they don't want to see answers to puzzles. 

////////////// PUZZLE DETAILS FOLLOW ////////////// 

I went to the construction site, got the cement, crowbar and the lockpick. I created the footprint mold. I asked the guy on the street about the mold, and then looked up the info on the computer. Then I lockpicked the car (very funny by the way!) but the car didn't allow me to interact with it anymore after that. I couldn't seem to figure out anything else to do from there. No new areas of the city opened up, I couldn't ask the guy anything, and there seemingly wasn't anything else to find. Let me know if this was a bug, or if I am just missing something right in front of my face. Because I'd really love to continue the game. I was enjoying it a lot. 

////////////// PUZZLE DETAILS END ////////////// 

As far as suggestions, it's a small thing but there isn't really any indication to players that they can use both right and left click (assuming they're letting the game speak for itself without reading the instructions). Maybe an eye icon to indicate where there are examine options, which would grey out when they've been examined already? You've written so much nice flavor text, it would be a shame if players missed it because they didn't know it was there. 

I actually recorded my playthrough. If you want to see my impressions as I played (or see if I really did run into a glitch), you can see it below (timestamp for your game in the description). Hope that can be useful! 

It all looks great. You might want to balance the audio a bit more as there are huge volume level differences between the various phrases of dialogue.

This was a nice little teaser. The artwork looks fantastic and the story about looptime etc. is intriguing, looking forward to learning more about that. I got up to the keypad, but couldn’t figure out where to find the code.

The camera moving with the mouse is cool, but I found it a bit frustrating at times, when it moves up every time you open the inventory. Some of the hotspots are hard to find too, you could use more contrast to make them easier to see, or maybe have a hotspot highlighter.

Looking forward to seeing more!

Wow, simply, wow. This game looks amazing

Great gaming I've been waiting to play this since seeing your progress in the Discord's I did find that in the scenes the lighting was quite dark which made it super difficult to solve some puzzles i.e. the office it took a while to spot the safe.  Other than it plays well, looks great too