Another 10/10 Poppy game. I'm always amazed at the wonderful things you do with Narrat. This one is short and fun and well executed, I like how intensely you characterize the protagonist and how you never stray from her perspective. WOW!
Easily the best soundtrack I've heard from the games this year (so far). Great narrative; it's fun how layered and complicated it gets without drifting into rote metanarrative stuff. Parts remind me of the autobiographical sections of House of Leaves, which is rare enough for a game to do, and this one pulled it off so cool and collected... It'll stay with me for a while. Poor Ana.
I don't know how much story significance the name 32xlad has, but it made me giggle for some reason. So thanks for that! Delicious game, thank you Ms. Profumo!
Super well written. I like how the work dove so deeply into areas of squick that are often ignored; it's become a bit passé to write about piss and sweat and blood, and the focus here on skin cells, on crevices within the body, on scabs and earwax, it made it all gross in delightfully fresh and interesting ways.
The story captures some of the isolation of staying on campus over the summer quite well, also.
I like the audio and presentation, the section dealing with the madonna was cool. Well done Dermomaniac!
The story and presentation (especially being in first person, and sometimes slipping into a soft second person?) reminds me of a semi famous little comicabout an angel talking to two women who ask it extremely intrusive questions while it tries to focus on them despite perceiving everything in the area down to terrible details. That sort of altered way of living and seeing the world is a really fun way to explore the main character, kudos.
Good bass on the bedroom song.
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The story is great. I like the angel thing as straight up narrative, and it works just as well as (what I'm guessing is) trans allegory, of some kind. I like the strange mixed pain and relief finding a date seems to bring, the ambiguous note it ends on. I like the final scene, how we see the character flex her agency a little for the first time, and then immediately jump to knowing what she wants and exercising ultimate and final agency to spite the strange man.
This game really digs down into some interesting, unnerving and sort of cathartic emotion. I wish I had more to say but it's not all processed yet; I'll be thinking about this one for a while. Thank you Indigo Children!
Amazing. I love the different presentational modes. I love the touch of having portraits on the right hand side. I love the dialogue sort of being structured like a film script or discord channel. The characters are well realised; I like that Ali gets a little pissy and annoying occasionally, she reminds me of how I worry I come off to people. Great group dynamics throughout, really; it's easy to project a lot of the ways people interact onto friend groups I'm in, which is always a cool feeling.
I like the way they all work out their little projects and get attached to them and slowly how they feel about them changes. Some are pragmatic, the newspaper is frankly insane, the Frankensteins are cool. The second letter to the newspaper made me shiver because it hits very close to home. It's effective writing!
I like the different channels/avenues of conversation people work out. Some are direct, some have an anonymous source, sometimes the recipient AND the source is anonymous. It's good and keeps the work lively throughout.
I like that the writer cares so much about porn, but in a way that isn't just a joke. Hard to put into words, but they seem very invested in new art getting made (and it's worth noting, maybe, that the porn really is the only purely artistic pursuit going on that we know about...)
Great game. I haven't played all the games from this jam yet but this one's going to the tippy top of my list for sure.
Presentation: Cool. Extremely minimal, lets you focus on the text, which is pleasant and poetic. No point overstays its welcome. I like that the figures aren't animated but everything else is, it creates a hypnotic effect.
Narrative: Fun! Has some real pathos esp given how short it is. I like focusing in on a single humour like this. The dour theology musing reminds me of some folk punk I listen to occasionally. Well done Democritus Jr II!
Presentation: One of the best looking bitsy's I've seen. Awesome use of the levels and whenever some image pops up it's surprising and fun. I love the midis!
Gameplay: Pressing down in the text sections is cool. Don't think I've seen it before!
Presentation: Could have done with a bit more polish. The default rpg maker backgrounds are easy to replace with some modified stock or public domain art!
The animations are cute.
Narrative: Very funny cut to the fellatio. Sort of cute atmosphere, though it seems a little hemmed in by the format. Short and pretty strange.
I've also been thinking of eventually compiling the sketches I made for the game. Would anyone be interested in a free digital artbook of sorts? Please let me know!
