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A jam submission

The Purple Heart ParadoxView game page

Wander recursively through Yukari's dreams in this short ADV game.
Submitted by bagoum — 19 hours, 30 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of Theme#14.4594.459
Story / Writing#34.4054.405
Concept#104.1624.162
Overall#114.0274.027
Audio#163.4863.486
Visuals#353.3243.324
Gameplay#362.8382.838
Challenge#422.1622.162

Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

You keep putting out the funniest and most thought-provoking ADV games. The engine looks great. The fact that it indicates dialog already seen makes this better than some commercial games.

And your writing is perfect for this theme. With that in mind, this might be your best jam game yet.

"Very philosophically-musing Yukari" is hard to pull off. "Very philosophically-musing Yukari who's SO TRAPPED BY HER OWN LOGIC that (amongst other reasons) she cannot properly convince herself she's dreaming despite all the obvious hints that she must be" is even harder to pull off, but you nailed it perfectly.

Fantastic ADV game with a lot of fun musing, whilst still telling a really sweet story about Yukari's inner subconscious and how her desires clash with her presentation. A standout entry, and easily one of my fav touhou little fics period, let alone games.

(Also, please let me know if you have like a writing page/VN page or something like that, I'd love to read more of your work!)

Submitted

Just like in your last game, the writing really got me. Things started out funny and got really crazy this time around, it was really a fever dream experience. Can't believe I got to learn about the water cycle again

Submitted

The location hopping format works really well and everything about interacting with the interface is smooth and pleasant.

I can imagine someone like Yukari with her powers and probable experiences developing an eroded sense of what is reality and what is dream.

My submission was going to have Doremy stuck in a dream being the cause of an incident. ^^

Casually Mima enters. Definitely not a dream, nope.

Submitted

good evening, itch.io user bagoum. i have not forgotten the gifts you have given us in your prior jam games

this is the last game in my long journey of playing and rating every entry and that was very intentional. i burdened the experience with high expectations and had knowingly set myself up to be disappointed and give it an unfair score if it did not acquiesce to my arbitrary and unrealistic demands

yet here i am, punching in fives almost all the way down the board. can you believe this shit

i dont needa say how clean the engine is again, quality still on top of the game. really wanna see a larger project in danmokou/suzunoya. keep it up

AWESOME WRITING!  Though the memes are a bit much.

having cirno talk sophisticated is a really strange kind of blow to the mind. the amogus meme put me off a bit but otherwise not bad.

this game destroyed my brain and likely several others with its writing

11/10

Submitted

This was so awesome to experience! I loved every moment of it! 

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What is a Bagoum game if weren't constantly reminding me about the existential water crisis?

Fun read. I'd like to think effort was spent at trying to be as outlandish as you could in your storytelling while keeping the reader grounded to the narrative.

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If I could give a sixth star for writing I would. This was delightful from start to finish