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ragmaan rated Nalet's Park (Game Jam Version)

ragmaan rated a visual novel 1 year ago
A downloadable visual novel for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.

Am ambitious work with a very stylized approach.

The narrative itself gets a bit murky if approached with extra scrutiny, but I think it does speak to a sort of qualia that's true for any reader, that carries a verisimilitude other political pieces often lack. Too many are at a higher level, but this is a reflection of the choices above trickling down onto those who can do nothing else but go along with the mandates of the law.

I liked your framing in the poetry for the sections, but felt the inconsistency in the style used (one felt like a form poem, others felt more like free-verse) didn't help bridge the sections well enough, whereas consistent usage of form poems could have represented the cultural differences further (especially given form poems are often from certain regions of the world). I think we could have also had some more modifications for the backgrounds to represent the passage of time, and removed the music during the poetry to let the works carry their weight alone.

I think you did well in representing real conflicts without poorly translating them inconsistently--even if the reactions felt a bit out of place, that's real of people, where the truth is stranger than fiction. In that you perhaps flew too close to the sun, but I think the cumulative whole is a curious experience with a lot of thought put into it.