This one's REALLY funny, 5 stars for Story and Concept easily
Play visual novel
Secret Sealing Mansion's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Story / Writing | #11 | 3.512 | 4.056 |
| Use of LGBTQ+ Themes | #21 | 3.175 | 3.667 |
| Audio / Music | #21 | 3.079 | 3.556 |
| Overall | #24 | 3.031 | 3.500 |
| Visuals | #25 | 3.127 | 3.611 |
| Concept | #26 | 3.079 | 3.556 |
| Balance (Challenge and Fairness) | #32 | 1.828 | 2.111 |
| Gameplay | #32 | 1.780 | 2.056 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team Members
kurantoB, temposparkz, ramaseta
Streaming Permission
Yes
Comments
It's very quirky and campy. It reminds me to the plots of teen rom-coms, where the stakes are low and it's all about the silly shenanigans and it all ends with a happy go lucky light tone which I enjoyed n.n.
My Favorite Part: Meeting Yui, an OCs, in an important role. I love to see how people incorporate original characters into the Touhou Universe! I think the only thing I really wished would be to see a little bit more from her outside of being the love interest of Sumireko since it's the first time I meet her. Sometimes even with newer Touhou characters they make references that go over my head since I'm not familiar with them. So it is nice when having a little bit of time to know the characters in the context of the story itself :3
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Whispers from a Misty LakeThanks for the review! I'm not a big teen romcom watcher but I guess I absorbed some of that through osmosis heheh. On the point about the OC's character development, the owner of the character (temposparkz) didn't have a personality for her and wasn't able to be here to see it through to the end, so I had to make it up on the spot. Having her not be in-depth just seemed the least risky for me lol, especially since she isn't mine. Though I agree Yui 's misadventures can be a good place to explore!
This was a delightful reading experience! It uses a very fun story idea and runs with it using numerous surprises and details.
I didn't encounter any issues running the game. I'm not familiar with VN softlock issues, but if there are worries of bugs during scene transition, a control lock of some kind may help. A back button for dialogues might be harder to add in, but could help in cases of accidental dialogue skips. (None of these happened to me, either, thanks to how otherwise well polished the engine is!)
As for the VN itself, the character art is nice! It's simple, consistent, and colorful. The background art does what it needs to, and the expressions are all phenomenally done. The calm, fun music is also a good fit!
The playful writing was fun to read through as well, of course. There's a good use of certain less popular characters as well as the mansion's own - plus of course the OC herself. I really enjoy seeing how people put OCs in Gensokyo!
The LLM use is acceptable, coming across more as good satire than it does foregoing Wikipedia or other sources - all on top of the explicit context in game. Well done!
Overall, Sumireko's scenario was a perfect fit to the theme, and a very natural use of the environment. Your team did excellent work on this game jam!
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