A lot of games in this jam made me go “this is so N64!”. In this game, it was the moment you first see Urchin’s pointy polygonal face and mitten hands. These graphics are cool not in spite of the N64 limitations, but because they use these limitations so well. Those handcrafted per-vertex shadows accomplish more with a handful of quads than modern games do with thousands.
Nice writing too. The delayed messages, nicknames, the personalities, it was great. Really engaging and enjoyable little VN.
