It took me a couple attempts at playing and rereading the description to figure out the rules and gameplay—you are given an excerpt from a poem, though missing a word, and you need to click on the correct word whizzing by.

Unfortunately, this isn’t particularly creative nor enjoyable. This style of gameplay is often seen in certain puzzle games, the gameplay loop is perhaps too basic (click the right word), and the challenge is mostly “just guess”, unless you happen to actually know the poem. I don’t think it’s a lost cause, but nor do I think this is a massive success. Another commenter has already suggested a way into modify the concept into something better.

Possibly doesn’t help that the poems chosen are very short (of which, there are only 2 anyway), so the game ends up being very short. In the end, the game feels more like a tool for learning these poems than an actual game. I’d personally try to think of ways to lean into gamifying it, perhaps doing better/worse makes the concussion worse resulting in an easier/harder challenge, or consecutive successes builds up an audience.

All that aside, visually, the game is quite nice. While not consisting of much in the way of dynamics or, well, scenes in general, what is there is good, although, perhaps stylistically confused, With aspects of pixel art, but also hard-edged brush painting. Though that may be intentional. There also appears to be some animation on the game’s submission page, but alas, it seems that this does not appear in-game itself.

All in all, while I can’t say I’m a fan of the game, I do think this could be a good starting point for something even more. The puns are great, though.

Love the concept! Found it a bit difficult to play- I had a hard time reading quickly enough to keep up