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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #36 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
| Audio | #48 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
| Gameplay/Design | #50 | 1.750 | 1.750 |
| Overall | #54 | 1.938 | 1.938 |
| Fun | #63 | 1.500 | 1.500 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
What would you like feedback on?
How do you like the story so far? (If you are interested, I can give you access to more chapters that have not been published yet.)
How easy is it to get into the story if you haven't played the prequel?
How do you like the minigames?
What did you update?
The story is now twice as long as in the original demo. Moreover, many things have been improved, in particular the story flow at the beginning and also some graphics, including most sprites.
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The graphics and sprites are amazing, very well polished.
To be fair I didn't play long since this is not my type of game. I did however notice a bug in the street fighter minigame, whatever I did I could not see my character nor press any of the arrow keys (playing on windows). After that I stopped playing (not because of the bug, just because I wasn't vibing with it).
Startup was very smooth, I did notice the choose your name screen was untranslated (still in German) but that was the only such bug I encountered. I liked the option to play the sequel if desired but I didn't try to do so.
Without playing the prequel, the story start felt a bit random and like a slog, a lot of infodumping with very little agency or story-beats happening. Again, not my genre so I don't know if that is normal or not? It was only the very start but very quickly I didn't feel like reading everything anymore. The short narrated part in the beginning was also the only narrated part? For me that narration was unnecessary since I read faster anyways but that's just my opinion of course
I wish you the best of luck with further development!
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Im glad you liked the polish. I will take a look at the bug in the streetfighter minigame.
Making the start smooth for players who have not played the prequel is a major concern, and I will see how to improve this further. Could you tell me exactly where you lost interest? That would be helpful information.
In general, Chapter 1 and 2 are a a bit slow, as the story needs to build momentum before the big turn of events in Chapter 3. (It's hard to condense them, while also giving the player time to develop the necessary closeness to the characters to care for them, once tragedy happens. A common problem for visual novels with deeper and longer story lines. – Not saying that I can't improve on that, though. :)
The narration – some people like it better than reading, others don't. So we have it usually a bit at the start (and it can be turned off anyway). In professional VNs is narrated throughout.
I've given this a quick ten-minute play / read through as part of the review swap, but I don't think it's fair for me to review it, as I'm not really the target audience. I don't really have an interest in visual novels. Everything seems to function okay, the save seems okay, the music volume can be turned down. I will try to get one of my nieces to give it a play through instead.
Thanks a lot! Looking forward to their comments! :)
I've downloaded this to try later as part of the review swap but got this error:
Not sure if you've come across this before.
Thank you. Honestly spoken, I have no idea what this is about, But I will run some tests. First conjecture: Maybe the special characters in the file name cause the issue. I will take them out and upload later.
Looks like it's working now for everyone?