If the screenshots are giving you Higurashi vibes, you should DEFINITELY play this game, it will be right up your alley, I promise! Immaculate horror~
DonDonPataPon [Visual Novelty]
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My crops are scorched and my plants are withered. I feel utterly miserable in the best possible way, thank you so very much...
You have a wonderful talent for emotional horror I hope you know (I don't know if that's a proper term or not but that's how I felt seeing everything progress through this game) (Also some very excellent more visceral horror yupyup-) This whole experience was beautifully written and produced, and utterly tragic overall.
I'm going to be thinking about this for quite some time...
I for one firmly support Women's Rights (and a few Wrongs to boot)-
Gosh the writing was so wonderfully charming, and it created a really interesting dynamic between the mysterious (and vaguely dangerous) Kali and the upfront and painfully earnest Kate...
And honestly everything we got to know about Kate, oh gosh... As the designated family member rendered incapable of saying no, I feel for them so much... Being in their head really enhanced the mystery of Kali, across the bar. And in an odd way the way the conversation choices influenced the endings felt real and earned and good! I enjoyed the flow of the story and the conversation a ton! I also came away still wondering about our mysterious customer, but I honestly love her as a mystery all in all!
The art was super charming, and the mechanics gave it a sort of fun little charm (the same charm I get from Phoenix Wright games heehee-) but it never took away from the emotional core of the story whatsoever! And gosh it hit home- I'm not crying you're crying-
Getting into a rut like that is painfully easy, getting out is painfully hard-
For my first time playing a stat-raiser, the gameplay loop was quite addicting, and I got pulled into the charm of the interactions, and the fun secret interactions/events to uncover! Once I learned how to overcome my stress wall, that is, eheh.... Once I did, though, it started to click!
I honestly might try and work through and try to get the other endings down the line!Oh gosh am I intrigued by what you have so far, I'm loving the premise you've set up here!
Lilia's personality is so adorable, while also giving me so many good questions about her past, and what made her who she is - especially with Ban, and the premise in general!
Rosie too is intriguing in her own right! Together, these roommates complete each other, I'm rooting for them~
And oh gosh the art and ui is beautiful? Rooting for you with this project so much, your work is fantastic and this is incredible!
Ohh your art, bgs and sprites were beautiful, I remember them from Spaghetti, but the almost painted, shadowy aesthetic of the denizens of the betwixt was amazing in its own right!
I particularly enjoyed Christopher's personal journey and how it was involved in the story you put together... What an unsettling but intriguing little world you've built here! I really enjoyed this!
WE ARE SO BACK LAB RATS LET'S GOOOOOO!
Really having played malViolence first I may have known how this story was always going to end, but my god this was a gut-wrenching downward spiral. Beautifully tragic, the descent from clinically pale whites and silvers to black and red, and then yellows and oranges as it all comes crashing down-
The horror is very much in what's happening in the walls of this place, but an underrated second dose of horror comes from watching people justify and later dismiss it, the knowledge that any objections will be quashed not by force but by red tape, and the sheer helplessness of it all-
Warm and fluffy pancakes to Team Violence for all your amazing work!
I don't know what it is that Grea that hits me in all the right spots but I love her character so much, not gonna lie. Her design, the bluntness of her dialogue, her dynamic with the cast in general, just... Delightful. True Neutral Vibes.
This was such a fun read. I particularly loved the structure of the mystery, the whole giving the player a chance to figure it out before the Detective reveals the answer... It almost feels Holmes-like.
...Also getting those vibes from the fact that I botched the answer in the end ahah, but the answer made sense, and included so much that was shown/told to us all along, to the point where I feel like all the clues were there, and Grea is genuinely smarter than me for noticing them when I didn't - Hence, Holmes-like~!
Plus my god the final act is a ride! Give this one a shot!
I'm excited to find out that Mystery Gamedev is a thing, and I'm hyped to see what else you're able to create together!
The colors, the abstract art style, the writing, amazing, conveyed the fear and anxiety in this story oh so well - shout-out to the shadows on the family being used so effectively-
But oh gosh this game destroyed me emotionally, Ending 5 my heart augh-
It's very much a game about waking up as a monster, but certain bits of dialogue, the way the parents react, I feel like it tells an unfortunately relatable story across the board really well...