This is my review of the game, just please take it as a very personal opinion. Please play the game to discover all of its qualities and more, and make your own idea about it!
I always look forward to playing new games by The Argonauts and or Esmeralda. The 2d hand drawn art is always unique, lively, comical and very well done, and I like it that it doesn't make use of 3d and modern tools. Everything is neat and thought in a smart way, the setting is nice, and overall it results in funny situations where the main character has to take silly decisions.
In this game, the main character is a young person that is quite lazy about house hores and cannot go back into the house, but a very strange world with magic and monsters is slowly replacing reality, everything coming from the favorite game of the character. The story is simple, and as you can read there's nothing really new, but it works well and it's a good pretext at taking the player in the game, until we start to meet very unusual characters and funny monsters!
The game is not very difficult, which I liked because you can just enjoy the story and situations without being stuck for too long. There are a few situations where I've been stuck and had to wander around, until I found out that I had indeed to wander (on purpose) and come back here or there after some time, and the world had changed. It's not always easy to know when you have to leave a place and come back, and why it happened, so I think you just have to try and guess, which is also part of those games.
It's a game in which you have to find items and use them properly. In this case they've made good use of it, because the items are found in logic places and are not hidden too much, and you know when you have to use them (it's not unfair), yet it's comical and you still need to think out of the box. It's also a game where the whole story takes place through speech/dialogue and I found that the punchlines were short but well written. The whole game might be less talkative than previous ones from the same creators, but I might just have bad memories.
The animation is well done and supports the story well. The sound design is not bad either and I loved how the blue monster runs away with the phone (the sound design when he runs goes so well with the situation!). The choice of music might be what I liked the least maybe, making it very standard. Nothing bad here, yet nothing original? I don't know, it's very personal, I might just have different tastes. It wasn't bad and I didn't dislike it either.
Overall I had a nice moment playing this game and it might be one of my favorite so far. I met a few small issues here and there (which I don't remember and didn't write down), but the game works well, tells a nice story, is made in a clever way and respects the themes of the jam.