If you're debating on getting this fuckiung get it for real. I've been on the edge of my seat waiting for trinkets new vn because their last one was a bomb. I like this one even more.
Compelling characters, story, the perfect about of intriguing, eerie, terrifying and suspense, the effects, art, and text is all used the perfect amount and the presentation of everything fits so professionally together and is just right.
My attention span sucks I have bad adhd but this one keeps my attention the whole time. I'm full completioning this when its out fr. Also the dev must be a workaholic bc the amount of art just in the demo alone is INSANE. I find a lot of vns lazy with just chunks of texts no choices and lack of art or just staring at busts only. The fact we get cgs in a demo is crazy, because AAA studios would never, which is funny bc they have the insane profit to do so. Support this game, play it, enjoy it, rate it, and tell ya friends. Gonna be making some more fanart soon.
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Absolutely amazing horror vn. Compelling story, characters, exciting and mysterious, always wanting more and wondering what's going to happen next, I am seriously anticipating the release. Everything is used well and in the right amount and right way. The music, sound and text effects, the presentation, the portraits and cgs, and so so so much art. A lot of vns are lazy and lack art content, or there stories are lacking. Here we have good art, good writing, and interesting characters and a fresh story. If you're into horror do it up homie.
OHH that makes more sense/ I understand tha, yeah introducing people would've been way too overwhelming, I mean a literal sentence of narration 'we;ve done x and have been close friends for years, and now we are doing y and z' a simple sentence, no introductions, like a thought bubble, or thought message!
xD the game was sooo much fun, i had so many favorites and this was one of them. Everyone went all out for this jam! I loved it, some of my fav type of game styles
ITS SO FREAKING GOOD aww it is not you guys' falt dw about it IT IS STILL 5 star it's got my vote 100%
It's sooo hard when there is a lot of characters going on at once, I get a weird overwhelmed feeling where I'm like whos who what's going on and I see name plates but i can't remember who anyone is xD It's probably just my brain honestly. I thought the characters were all wonderful and super cute and have great personality. Some little narrration bits not a long into but we've been friends for x years or some slight backstory or little comments or characters thoughts like a short summary of how they know eachother, I think would help the player connect with them a lot more! I hope this helps.
My first ending was accusing the guy with the glasses, it said i was correct, but idk what the name of that ending was...but Now I'm gonna go back and get the others xDDD
It's more of when the characters are making little jokes amongst themselves and it feels out of left feel or like an i don't get it or did I miss something but I am autistic so it might legit be an autism thing. But I even told hawk if I joined a jam it would be so hard to do a mystery thing like this bc usually we have MORE time with the characters, I'd never base a rating off of a vibe or a preference, it's still 5 star and I love it dw dw it did not affect score I was honestly wondering if It was just me or if anyone else felt that way bc I might just be crazy fr xD
also one of my favorites, love the mechanics, I love the graphics. But god, I suck at video games, I could barely get past the switch. I highkey hope next jam folks make a 'hella easy mode' xD for folks who suck at video games bc I want to play it and get it so bad, I gave up pretty quickly, but again, I've never been good at games even if i like them a lot, and I'm not a challenger type person though, I don't like when things become a repetitive time sync(dying a lot) but ik a lot of classic games are LIKE that and I get it.
I did still vote it 5 star, bc this may be a me problem.
MY FAVORITE I just played everyones game. It's SO hard though. But probably bc I suck at it. I couldn't get past the 2nd battle, idk how many there were...but even losing was hilarious with the writing.
This was literally sucha professionally made game...what engine did you use?
The title screen,, professional, the art and sprite work? Professional...the writing...professional...the game felt smooth and ran well and I love this kind of a battle system, I was just very bad at it and had a hard time being able to tell when the enemy was about to make an attack(the small birds mainly.) wish we had healing potions but I understand this game was probably intentionally difficult! Hope hawk can beat it so i can see it through!
The beginning was honestly kind of rough, I hate to be the simon of reviewers here too, but it was really clustered, messy, confusing, I had no idea what was happening, little to no context of what was going on or the characters, and it feels like I'm supposed to have played valkyrie stars games or have context about who these characters are and what they are talking about some of the time. A few folks in the jam had a thing with characters where folks need to remember that the people playing don't know who your characters are yet, they aren't going to understand dialogue referencing other games or things, there is nothing wrong with loving your characters or games and I've seen other people make cameos or easter eggs, but most of this game I didn't know what was going on or what anyone was talking about and some random dialogue that I just didn't understand, or made me feel like i was supposed to know something I didn't. The mapping, art and sprites are very cool though! I did 3 star, but if anyone things this is unfair I will change my review!
I'll probably change mine anyways if hawk has a better experience than me or if he can help understand it better/chat.
I edited my review based on hawks/
5 star!!! Amazing art work and the game is so fun. Love trial type stuff btw. Only thing I would note I said on hiddeones too, sometimes a large cast is hard for jams specifcally, and I love how lively the characters are. But in a game like danganronpa you have time to get to know them, it would have been impossible for the jam. But sometimes I felt like there were so many like...inside jokes or side convos that I either wasn't following, or how do I put it...it feels like when a group of friends are having a conversation in front of you and are happy and having fun but are leaving you out of it, and you want to be involved but you can't. xD It feels like we are supposed to know a lot more about the characters when we don't, just by the way the writing and dialogue is. It just might help in the future to note the players might be entirely new to the characters and not know a thing about them, doesn't mean we have to know their lives story, but some little notes of some background we can follow helps. But this often happens when large casts of characters are introduced quickly, especially ones that already know eachother, and there isn't slow little hints about how they knew eachother or the background or the world etc. Little notes like knowing the father of the girl there, was helpful, for instance. Even some subtle narration at the beginning, not LONG per say, but a short 'we've known eachother for some time, etc etc, a little about the world.' not super long bc you wat to get in the meat of the game but enough to follow, or even some narration in between dialogue like, idk if that makes any sense xD
I gave it a 4 but mainly because the camera wwas very ffrustrating and gave me a headache and motion sickness. I thought the hawk and shooting it was kind of cute but it was hurting my wrist as well bc I kept trying to turn it and it was just driving me insane. This must've been hard to do though and it looks cool. I still gav 4 star to be fair and i will change it to 5 star if anyone tells me it's a me problem too! Thanks for making the game though, it might be easier to see hawk play it and I will change my rating based on his playthrough.
BTW I took my time and clicked on literally EVERYTHING and it was so worth it. You're an incredible writer and I can't wait to see what games you make next, your games are always so much fun and I always love the characters and writing. Your pacing is literally perfect and your games also don't stress me out((which is a good thing)) xD the statue made me lol bc it felt so nostalgic
It was short and sweet, but I loved it. Who it was, was a little predictable by art sake(idk if that was intentional) and expressions, but for a jam that's fine. I love the art per usual I am always insanely impressed you can make so much incredible art so quickly, and the beginning was so funny it had me cracking up.
One thing I will note is that introducing a heck ton of characters at once can be insanely jarring and overwhelming---maybe it's just me. You can't really grow any attatchment or care about characters when there are so much thrown at you at once. The characters have personality- and are lively, that isn't it...it almost feels like...we are supposed to know about the characters ahead of time or before the game has started. It feels like there's a lot of maybe not inside jokes..but stuff we should be knowing about the characters or time the spent together. They are new to us, even if they are very familiar to you. I think they have a lot of personality and their designs are cool. I think it's just a lot of characters at once it isn't super neccessary to have so many thrown into the bunch immediately, it starts to get confusing even remembering the characters names or anything about them, esp since bc it's a jam we don't spend very much time with them. It might be a preference so this has nothing to do with my score, I 5 star this.
I love the dialogue and clicking on the items and investigating was fun, and the arrow scroll was a nice touch! Awesome game and one of my favorites so far.
I loved your game dora! It was so much fun. I loved mention of drury lane, and seeing Tymvaul,(spelled wrong prob sorry xD) and other characters and mentions from raffelsia! The shop district is also so cute, I love your style of mapping. This was seriously so charming, I love the artwork and edits I see you did was very cool. It was a very unique take and I think your game styles are also fun and interesting! Thank you for joining the jam!!
Yeah I restarted it twice to reread it and I still don't understand it. I kept going and looking and clicking everywhere, and looking for anomolies, the only diff I ever saw was the walking thing and it never let me interact with it...so i kept going but I clicked on basically everything in the room each time and nothing happened. I'm gonna refrain from voting bc I have no idea how to play. I keep dying and trying to go through but I'm clearly not seeing or misunderstanding something. Do you not hit enter on the anamoly?? What do you mean you need to go back? As in go backwards?