This is one of the best looking games in the jam from a graphical perspective. The graphics are reminiscent of many early 3D games. Tomb Raider, on my Dreamcast comes to mind. 

On the other hand though, the character models and animations are obviously a lot more detailed. While this could have been a problem, the lowered resolution creates the impression that they are worse than they actually are. Great move, weirdly enough!

If there is one deal breaker in this game, It's the lack of checkpoints. I managed to get just past the river after many trials and tribulations. The fact that there are no checkpoints, combined with the lack of health bar, makes it seem very random to the player when they die. There were times when I though I was playing perfectly, when suddenly I entered the T Pose of death. It made the combat seem more luck-based rather than skill-based, which is a shame.

I loved the use of music. The dubstep was a perfect fit. As someone who also learned blender for the first time in this jam, you seemed to learn much faster than I did! Environments and stuff looked great, and it helped to create a very coherent package.

Overall, this was a great game, as have been your previous ones. Well done, and good luck!

I think what this submission lacked in the modifier it made up for on the so bad its good side. The dubstep whenever you crouch, the non-animated enemies who float in the air when you die, horrid level design and draw distance are all great touches.

The two things that to me stand out as falling under the retro modifier are the low draw distance and the zooming out and spinning of the camera when you die, all you'd really need on top of that is for there to be a really echo-y death scream ala Metal Gear Solid. The sound effects for the jumping, walking and some enemy attacks were some nice little flourishes.

From a certain perspective I can certainly say that this game is the most immersive with the removal of any HUD or menu whatsoever.

Also I have to congratulate you for learning UE4 and blender for the first time, as someone who has used blender since they were in elementary it's always nice to see people pick it up for fun.

Overall, good job man!

All respect with the T-POSE

Graphics

There is an adventurer named Airi, standing in front of an endless fog, mountains are visible in distance and shes imagining her adventure to the lost forest of wild and fearless evil to get home. But when you turn your mouse around, you find out that the best looking thing in this world is Airi herself.

Super low poly tree cup cakes, with circles of grass on the ground and straight walls of rock and flat green to ensure you don't go out of game boundaries. 

Who do you think guards this beautiful environment? Some disabled people with a fox mask and no fingers. They say "OOF" when they see you, and move their arms to magically summon an arrow to slowly fly toward you. But they just stand there hoping their arrow might hit.

After you move to the jungle, you'll see some pork statues of dogs flying to you from the sky with invisible jet engine. You'll also see a huge uncomfortable polar bear as a boss; which is the reason why the internet is afraid of T-Pose.

There is no UI graphics in this whole game.

Sound

When you start to walk, you find out that the game has sound and that is a nice walking sound. 

But when you press space, you look to your closet in real life to see if your Atari is revived and booted River Raid for you.

 After you found out that you don't have an Atari, you press ctrl button and hear your party animal neighbor playing some dubstep in the midnight; although Airi is trying to tell you that the sound is from the game by twerking for you. The same game with an 8-bit OOF sound.

Gameplay

You will start hitting magical blue orbs to the thing you've found pointing arrows towards you, then you tie them with rope (even though it doesn't look like you have any rope at all)

After failing some tries and converting to camera rotating T-pose state, you try the stealth way and don't enjoy anything other than Airi's dance.

So you find out that you can actually run away from everything and just go speed run the whole map, and yeah sorry I don't have time for boss fight Mr. Big Static Black Bear™️. 

After ignoring shitload of baddies and having an army of angry floating dogs behind, you see this image:

No creature was harmed during my playthrough.

Overall Bad

Let's see; no menu, no UI AT ALL, poor environment (even if you tried to be like PS1 games, it's not a good one), awful animations, enemies turn into a solid roped object after death, clicking fast cancels the previous attack and resets the whole attack, fog don't let you see anything and you can still fight after death.

Yup, that's bad enough for an SBIG game!

Overall Good

Let's see; decent gameplay (It progresses like a standard game; I liked it personally), the atmosphere feels like a PS1 game overall, nice color mix, character controller is good (thanks to UE4) and oh my god your character looks very nice! For a one week jam you've put so much into Airi and she's absolutely beautiful. You're a great artist!

Modifier 

Putting a pixelation image effect and making everything low poly is a lazy way of making a game retro; but I can say that it is sort of good. You could make the main character more low poly and just lower texture resolutions instead of the image effect.

I enjoyed this game and the fighting system is amusing too. It would been better if there was a story to it like Airi was going to save her home from the bear that kept her family or something. Nice game overall, keep up the good work!

Airi is very cute btw :>

Note that I know developers made these games BAD on purpose, so pointing out poor parts of their game is not criticism. They're, in fact,  good factors in this jam.

This is probably the best looking game of the jam, might have done the modifier the best, and is probably one of the more coherent.

It definitely has the look of a PS1 (or, to me, more like early Glide) game. Low res, limited palette, no filtering and awful draw distance, check. Well... almost. I don't know if it's a bug or I just didn't notice it the first time, but the second time I fired up the game the facade dropped a bit. It had very modern looking motion blur and I could tell that the pixels were done with a postprocessing effect. Kind of a shame, too, because the first time I played it I was blown away by how retro it really looked.

The framerate also varied a lot. That might be my computer's fault; I'm not sure if it's actually running on the dGPU or not.

The stealth music feels really out of place. I don't know if it's a reference to a specific game, but it really threw me off.

The gameplay is eh. It's rough but it (mostly) works. Normally I'd say that it's off to a good start but for this jam I think it's probably the worst place to be. My favourite games in previous years were the ones that played well but were awful in other ways, or had horrendously weird and awful gameplay but were still somehow fun.

With no HUD, no menus, no pause, and no checkpoints, it felt really incomplete, like a prototype. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for this jam. I did find having to start from the beginning every time very frustrating, and never reached the end.

I don't know. I think it's actually really well done, especially in terms of being a retro game, but I found it kind of boring to be honest.