I was looking forward to checking this one out cos I saw some of the progress posts on Discord and thought the art was really nice :3

When I first started playing, I was pretty confused as I downloaded the windows version since I'm on the ol potato laptop, and there wasn't any sound >.< I thought it was my laptop being its usual crappy self, so I checked headphone volume + settings volume, but it made no difference having both on max. I played the first level, but still no sound. Then I had a lightbulb moment and went to try the browser version instead! The sound is fine on that :3 So maybe it's a bug in the windows version? I did try restarting a couple of times, but that didn't make any difference. The browser version ran fine for me anyways, so I just played through the rest like that :D

The ghost lady did make me jump the first time when she appeared, haha. I thought the lightning effect in later levels was really cool, and I hope it's not too spoilery to say, but also the dude popping up with like his head in the bookcase and clock and stuff, haha.

I noticed a couple of bugs here and there, which you might already aware of! I guess I'll mention them in case you aren't though. One thing was that the mother ghost sprite from night 3 onwards seemed to get stuck on the screen for me after appearing for the first time. Not fully, like a very faint transparent burn or something I guess from the frame where she's about to fade maybe. The first time mother ghost appeared on night 4, she sorta appeared without her sprite. I knew she was there and to press the light cos the SFX played as normal, and I kinda just hit the light on instinct, haha, but the sprite didn't show. That only happened on her first popup though, after that, the sprite appeared as normal, and then the faded version got stuck on the screen again.

I think I spotted some typos in the story text for night 3 and 4 as well. Night 3 I think was a comma where it looked like you meant to put a full stop (cos the next word was 'In' or something like that and the I was capitalised.) And in night 4 I'm not quite sure if it was a typo or if it was actually two different characters, but paragraph 2 said Ester, and paragraph 3 said Esther.

I hope you don't think I'm being nit picky cos that isn't the case at all! >.< I just know that I personally would prefer to know about stuff like that when people encounter it so I can fix it. When I released my first big project, despite extensive testing by myself and a couple of friends, there were odd minor bugs and typos in several places, and I didn't find out about some of em until like 3 months later :( Was kinda mortified that folk had been playing for that long and I had no idea those issues were there, haha. I know there are definitely some bugs in my entry for this as well! Likely typos too, cos no matter how hard I try to eliminate em, some always bloomin remain T_T haha.

So sorry for rambling >.<

Anyways! I think the aesthetics are pretty darn lovely to look at. The SFX are utilised really well to create tension, and it all comes together really nicely as a complete experience :3

Definitely one of the more polished submissions out there, a good solid game with excellent atmosphere. Unintuitive gameplay is probably the only issue I have with it, as it appears to drop you in without much setup.

I actually jumped! I liked the background story and the presentation, but the controls only worked the first time. I couldn't get the light to recharge so once she popped up and I used the initial flash, I was toast!!