This is one of my top ones but… you know this one tears me apart for one really sad reason: I just couldn’t really enjoy all of it. It’s like I found a fun-sized Snickers on a cupboard when I was super hungry, to find out it was molten a bit.
I kept on going as far as I can go. Explored every little place, pressed E like a cookie clicker on everything, had SUCH AN AMAZING first impression that I was like: ok, this is it. This is the one.
…but I don’t know if I’m way too dumb, missed something, but there were a lot of doors I couldn’t open. I clipped through a wall and nothing happened. The controls were fine at first when I was making progress… until I kept backtracking and they grew ever so floaty and mushy. I had to reaaaally wiggle my way through portals to fit, and sometimes doors were stuck making glitchy flickers that I thought were part of the game. Don’t know, probably not?
The chromatic aberration with scanline shader (aka, the VHS filter) was awesome until I started getting a little headache with the weird movement. Sometimes it was soo dark I couldn’t even tell where I was. The map, too. I loved that it had a layout that was challenging and I had to remember where I was because I needed to know where I wasn’t.
The sound acting was… how did you even manage to get it to sound this good in so little time?
I went as far as I could. I tried to eat the Snickers bar down to the last bit… but I couldn’t finish it and my head hurts a bit.
Credit where credit’s due: this is probably one of the best of the jam, hands down. You deserve the spotlight. It’s just that daaaaamn I wish I could’ve just gone a bit more. But I spent a bit more than an hour. This is one of the ones that need a full release, with the filter/controls/gameplay smol little tweaks, and there you go. A banger.
Sidenote:
I have some pretty spicy opinions on jumpscares. I don’t like them at all in games. I find them a cheap, overused resource that makes an otherwise fine game terrible, like a mould on a piece of bread. However… your game’s ones aren’t cheap jumpscares. I do prefer these, more tasteful ones than overusing it to replace a better plot. You have a plot. You have the right to use them because they’re done tastefully. This is something that’s more personal so it didn’t really tip the scale for me.