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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Spooky Greatness | #20 | 1.556 | 1.556 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Le Grand Guignol (created in over 4 hrs)
Which theme does your game fall under?
Spooky
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This game is quite linear, and resisted all of my attempts not to be a maniac. It's a game about gun violence, but it doesn't offer much of a commentary on it. Not my cup of tea at all, I'm afraid.
I'm really not into gun violence type games so this style of story isn't for me I'm afraid although I played it for the comp. I didn't encounter any bugs on the playthrough I did. I was a little confused about the HP pages. It seemed like it was trying to present the MC's thoughts about the situation as video game like, however HP's always seemed to go to 0 (and the bar disappears) after one shot so no one had a chance to fight back and the MC doesn't seem to be in danger of being taken out of action themselves with no movement of their HP bar. (Unless I missed something on a different path?) I just feel like the stakes might be higher if the MC was in danger of being stopped. (Again this might be in a different playthrough so apologies if this is the case.)
The subject matter of this game is very much not for me, so I appreciated the content warnings! (Although I think a content warning of “mental illness” stigmatizes the mentally ill unjustly, in this particular case. You might consider replacing it with “gun violence.”)
I did notice a few typos as well.
One bug: I ended up on a blank passage by clicking [someone] > [Go to them] and couldn’t proceed.
Otherwise, I didn’t run into any problems playing through this (although I don’t think I would have played through all the way if I weren’t rating it, due to my own strong aversion to this kind of horror).
Thanks for letting me know! I'll be try and iron them out when i have the time. Also thank you for still playing the game even if it isn't really your cup of tea.
I just hope you weren't to uncomfortable or offended by it but nevertheless thank you and to all who still played the game!