Left a rating a while back but forgot to leave a comment, so here I am :D
I absolutely loved all the art and sound design, it really built the atmosphere for a beautifully creepy game. I'm honestly super impressed at how well the art all fit together and was consistent considering you had multiple artists. I've seen too many games where they would have 2+ artists and the game would look like a mess of inconsistent art whether it just be style or even pixel size (if it was a pixel art style). If I could give 7 stars for graphics I would have.
I wish there was more to this game in terms of gameplay and design. The Walkman mechanic is super cool and all, but I think it could've been explored more thoroughly. The couple uses of the Walkman was explored in the first minute and then not really expanded upon, just repeated. The "levels" started to feel repetitive with no real sense of danger whatsoever. However, I do feel that your team was going for a more atmospheric kind of game rather than a challenging one, which is understandable and you definitely succeeded on that end.
Just some other small nitpicks I can remember:
- it'd be cool if I could see in a clearer way how much time I have left on the Walkman before I have to start rewinding other than just the visual/audio cues near the end (for an indication more subtle than just a bar to show this, maybe the blue light circle radius gets smaller and smaller as time goes on, or it gets dimmer)
- maybe make the creepy stuff move faster for an increased sense of danger
- adding platforming to a horror game felt a little off, since horror games usually have slow movement to build suspense, but the slow movement (and even the slightly increased movement during Walkman mode) felt really awkward for me to platform with
- the death animation felt slightly too long
I don't really play these kinds of games very often so I feel like a lot of these criticism are because of that, and if so feel free to just ignore it, but overall it was a pretty fun game!
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