I AM RATING THESE ALL THESE JAM SUBMISSIONS RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER. THERE ARE HIGH HIGHS AND LOW LOWS BUT PLEASE DON’T TAKE THIS TOO PERSONALLY, AFTERALL, WE ALL ONLY HAD A MONTH.

I’VE ALSO ONCE AGAIN VERY MUCH PROCRASTINATED ON DOING THESE JAM REVIEWS SO THESE ARE BASED ON MY MEMORIES FROM 10 MONTHS AGO.

Implementation of Theme (1):

???

Story (1):

I have no idea what the story is.

Presentation (2):

There was a lot of custom assets but it’s not in style that I like regardless of my gender preferences.

Creativity (1):

The minigame, even though there was no skill whatsoever involved, was memorable for what people said about it during the stream.

Total (5):

I’m glad that the creator seems to release a lot of projects regularly and got experiment a bit in a Furry Jam.

I wish I knew about the Werewolf Jam that you also submitted this to. I feel like we could’ve gotten more cross-Jam utilization that way.

Honestly this was a hilarious entry. I loved the absurdness of it all. From the breakneck pace of the story to the enormous assets that every character had (I mean just look at how big the chief's tail is! XD).

I can't really give anything meaningful in terms of things like grammar issues, the occasional spelling mistake, and the floating sprites. Since a couple of others have already commented about it. 

A funny little story to put a smile on my face and some eye-candy to boot. Nice job!

Absolutely loved this. Wonderful art, the story is silly, but fun, and I really hope to see more from this artist <3 

I was responsible for streaming this one on the server, and did my best to narrate it in the most serious, deadpan manner I could muster.  

This was certainly a trip!  Probably more than the other entries I've read so far, this one explores animalistic traits and instincts... so often in fvns, the characters could be replaced with humans and make virtually no difference narratively but that's certainly not the case here.  And the "full moon" as the light in the dark was inspired.  

Absolutely unhinged. But please take that as the compliment it was meant to be. This was a wild ride from start to finish, full of extremely voluptuous bodies and insane yet intriguing action scenes. There's an obsession with big butts that pervades the very fabric of the story, and by god, I would not have it any other way. This VN was made with passion! Sure, the writing is close to nonsensical at times, and there's a lot of floating sprites that break the immersion a little, but I was very much not bored during this. There were so many wild plot points brought up in such a short time. I mean, the barbecue? The derg? The colloquial usage of a full moon becoming literal?? And, man, those sausages looked good. You have a beautiful mind. Thank you for making this. (that being said, I had to be objective when rating this, and I do think it could have used some work to really wrap up the absurd plot)

I read this entry with some friends and, boy, was it an experience.

I need to preface this by saying I'm definitely not the target audience for this work, considering this appears to be a very horny heterosexual piece with some specific... fixations on certain body parts and proportions. But I was more than ready to give it a fair shake.

Unfortunately the VN, as it currently is, is in such a rough state that I find it difficult to appreciate it for what it was probably trying to do. The prose is riddled with mistakes and ESL-isms which sometimes make the text genuinely difficult to understand. The sprites are often positioned irrespective of backgrounds and their sizes tend to be all over the place and the music feels a bit repetitive.

I quite liked the backgrounds you used, but like everything else they lack a unifying artistic vision. The art styles are all over the place.

Even beyond these issues, there wasn't much in the story for me to latch on to, if you take away the horny stuff. It is structurally quite weak, it's a lot of going back and forth from the village to the forest and vice versa and having weird random encounters. Does the protagonist even end up using the "Love Perfume" he acquires? 

What I will say is that the VN is so unabashedly shameless and out-there that my reading group and I were having a lot of fun with it despite its flaws, eager to find out what crazy thing was going to happen next.

"You identify them as kobold thanks to their dumptruck asses" - ah yes, I think I can see the tone we're going for here lol. 

I think this is the closest to a full-on parody that I've read so far in the jam, which was refreshing since super emotional gut-punching stories of love and loss do take their toll after a while, but this one also maybe lacked some polish here and there to really elevate it to top tier.

Breaking things down by criterion, spoilers from this point forward:

Implementation of Theme:

Sure, you've got the literal moon being obscured by literal dark clouds and then you have Amandine being the light for both our main fella and the town of loups garous at large since she saves the day and KOs the dragon so they can have the moon again. I'm fine with it. It's not like, groundbreaking, but it's good enough.

Story:

So, I feel that comedy is the absolute hardest genre to get right in translation - there's so much of comedy that comes down to wordplay, timing, and structure that even the slightest difference in wording, syntax, or even cultural significance can be the difference between a joke absolutely slaying and falling flat.

There were quite a few moments in this VN that got a snicker out of me, but there were many more moments when I was unfortunately thinking "this probably hits a lot harder in French." I feel like this also contributed to my other main issue with the story, which is that, while I know the point here is to be over-the-top and absurd, much of the VN felt just a touch too "le random" for my taste. You have enough information in here to set up each of the jokes/scenes, but it never really feels, like, cohesive. Almost more like a string of vignettes or sketches than one structured story.

Presentation:

Honestly most of it was fine in my opinion - I obviously appreciate all the sprites and CGs you created for this on such a short time frame (who's Amandine I'm still thinking about Mirabelle), and the music and backgrounds certainly did their jobs, though there were several instances of sprites sitting in awkward spaces compared to the background. Positioning your sprites in more natural spots is something you may want to work on for next time.

This is going back to the translation bit above, but there were a few questionable presentation choices I found where I wasn't entirely sure if they were actually "mistakes" per se or if they were supposed to be part of the joke:

- I'm not sure why there's a portrait for Mirabelle near the dialogue box. Usually you do that either for someone who's not on-screen (like you do for the MC) or to have that be an emotion-specific image so you don't have to create new full sprites, like for example the main sprite stays the same but the portrait in the corner shows the character laughing or blushing. The portrait for Mirabelle is literally just copy-pasted from her sprite in center screen, so I'm not sure what the point of that was.

- No idea why the text turns blue during part of the scene with the chief.

- Not sure if the "click 'fight' to win" thing was making fun of RPG fighting mechanics or if there was an actual fight system that got cut to jam constraints.

- When Amandine returns to normal size after her first time being giant it looks like she's attached to a masculine body with no breasts. Not sure if that was intended.

Also there's the whole menus being in French thing but it seems like you're already well aware of that.

Creativity:

Judging from your other projects, it seems like expansion is a fairly common theme for you - it's not really my thing, but there plenty of other jokes to choose from here. I'm an avid supporter of "come up with something as far from what the prompt intended that you can get away with", and I think that's part of what you were doing here, so I respect it, but for the reasons mentioned above I think it was missing a bit of spark to make it really stick with me.

I'm still glad I got the chance to read this though and I hope to see more stuff from you in the future.