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winterbraid21 days ago (5 edits) (+1)

A very cool and unique entry, it's always nice to see a bit more of a narrative focus! The graphics and sound are certainly very minimalistic, but they do the job for the theme and the setting. The enemies were also quite cool and unsettling, especially the big "spawner" type. The powerups were simple but effective, I liked the focus on climbing and growing/shrinking vines throughout the game, and getting a bit of a lore explanation for each powerup was a nice touch!

I quite enjoyed the writing and the story, it was definitely the highlight of the game. Although, I also feel like it tried to fit slightly too many things into such a short time frame between the reality manipulation, 4th wall breaks, the various plot twists etc. Also, I wasn't really able to find any of the "dark themes" that the page warned me about - though it's possible I simply missed something, as I definitely saw at least one book that I didn't quite figure out how to get to.

Regardless, I had a lot of fun with this game and I'd love to see you take this kind of story focus further!

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Happy Frog Games20 days ago

Spoilers for the game: In regards to the darker themes… if one pays enough attention to the story, there’s implications that

SPOILERS you're taking control of somebody (who may or may not actually be the game's real antagonist, depending on how you interpret certain plot beats) whose entire goal was very possibly implied to just be to have things out for their own twin and went out of their way to bend the reality of the entire world to their whim just to accomplish this. And mind you, probably could have just eliminated said twin from existence if they weren't seemingly trying to go out of their way to make it actively painful.

It’s kind of easy to miss… multiple aspects of that though. This is, to be fair, kind of by design: I don’t want to take away from a given player’s own interpretations of the plot, since beyond some of the looser beats that I intended, the specifics are intentionally highly ambiguous, and even the looser intended beats I’m intentionally vague on since I think that makes it all way more interesting.

That being said, because I intentionally wrote it such that the implications can be quite dark if you read it certain ways, it’s in there as something of an abundance of caution.

…ambiguous writing is fun!

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Happy Frog Games19 days ago

Oh! Right, I realize now I should also further clarify: Part of the reason for the warning is in case somebody not in the jam, but rather just familiar with my other games, stumbles into the game and is curious about it. Since a lot of my other games are a lot more tonally lighthearted, or broadly play out in a way that’s a bit more hopeful than this game is barring that, I felt a heads up would be appreciated by some.

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