I quite enjoyed the concept of the dark inversion of the King Arthur myth. It was a good choice to have the viewpoint character be a sort of 'herald' figure as opposed to one of the Voices or the king himself, as it let the reader follow the revelations organically. The prose got a little snarled at times but the story kept moving at a good pace and (at least I found it to be) easy to track with. You've got a good twist on the traditional understanding of the knightly kingdom and the forces of Havoc here too, and I'd love to dig further into this conception of the setting.
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THE CALL OF THE LADY - OPR JAM 6's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Concept & Originality | #8 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
Overall | #15 | 3.810 | 3.810 |
Flow & Clarity | #21 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
Adherence to the Theme | #23 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The concept is really good and I like the flip of the artuhrian legend. It took a moment to connect the dots at the very end (the first line and the knight's view of silver as "sickening") but it looks like that was due to having to cut down a slightly longer version (which might be cool to post in the discord lore channel if you still have it once the jam is done.) The lady being silver-eyed as well leads me to believe the question of "Are we the baddies?" here is a personal one, of how much guilt the knight bears for being deceived into violence and how much can be blamed on demonic influence. (Possibly too the Kingdom of Angels could have a "keep the war going eternally" thing where they purposefully guide regions towards demonic influence so they can quash it, and hence the Voices led the knight there; but the hints seem to lean towards the other theory.)
I really enjoyed this read, however I became quite lost at the end, perhaps there is a lore reference I'm missing? I am just having a hard time understanding the reason why our heroes must now come to blows.
Really engaging concept and twist, but hard to follow. Really fun character to think about, even if the actions of the story felt very unclear to me.
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