Audio-visually impressive: A top notch, I'd say. However, re-reading (or skipping) all the dialogues was somewhat tiresome, and not being able to select choices with mouse was a bit awkward.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Quality | #1 | 4.129 | 4.129 |
| Overall | #4 | 3.629 | 3.629 |
| Entertainment | #4 | 3.419 | 3.419 |
| Concept | #5 | 3.581 | 3.581 |
| How the themes are used | #9 | 3.387 | 3.387 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This was really cool! The artstyle is gorgeous, story is very interesting. Well done!
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SquashCrewAmazing game! Though I failed father :( at least he died knowing I loved him!
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Banana extractionThis is an extremely polished and well made game :) as a Jordan myself I had a really easy time relating to the nuanced father son relationship, so this game tugged on my heartstrings with ease. Loved it :) really really impressive for a game jam game.
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Hot Dogs Again...Its a good narrative and the art is very well done; the music is good but whenever it 'glitches up' it recalls memories of how a computer sounds when it blue screens and gave me anxiety and made me check my sound several times. So kudos to the sound designer, but curse you at the same time for freaking me out the first time.
I like that the choices with consequences are functionally endings in their own right, though I didnt explore all of them the first time I got a 'bad ending' I was like "huh... I guess thats the bad ending"; while I dont know how many such endings there are, its a nice style that is seldom used and often when a choice with negative consequence occurs the game prompts you to reload a checkpoint, instead such a choice is simply how the story ends in this game, which is appreciable. Though I do wish I had a way to reload so I could explore other choices faster.
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Rust EternumThank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it :) We are aware of the sound problems, and we will work on fixing it after the voting phase ends. We also thought of a checkpoint reload after the endings, but we didn't have enough time left to make it work correctly, so instead of putting an incomplete feature, we decided to report if for after the jam. We hope you enjoyed playing the game regardless
Impressive game, I really liked the story, also art style is just amazing!
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