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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Entertainment | #16 | 3.945 | 4.200 |
| Audio | #16 | 3.883 | 4.133 |
| Creativity | #22 | 4.008 | 4.267 |
| Visuals | #27 | 4.133 | 4.400 |
| Theme Use | #29 | 3.883 | 4.133 |
| Skeleton | #58 | 3.194 | 3.400 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.
- Really loved this game. I enjoyed making my frens way too powerful before I went to the last boss. It soft locked a couple of times but still really enjoyed it. Well done.
- Wish there was a checkpoint to save after beating fien but before fighting the skeleton. I accidentally closed the game after getting to the skeleton for the 2nd time and lost all progress I made since my last save so I couldn't see what happened when you beat the skeleton. Good game though.
- Nice RPG, I wish the turn based segments weren't so slow during each turn tho.
Who worked on your submission?
Me (NoodlesXL), Jebb Jabroni and OkeydokeyBOYO
How does your submission fit the theme?
Recruit bootleg versions of Fren and fight against bosses who are iconic bootleg video game characters!
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Comments
I would recommend to speed up how each turn goes during the turn based segments (if is possible), they seem to take a while to get into choosing the next attack.
I liked this one, a little grindy but nothing too bad. The art was great and I enjoyed seeing all the different frens. The final boss didn't work for me, i just got stuck in the room and nothing happened and I couldn't interact with anything so I didn't get to finish it, but overall it was fun!
Thank you for playing! If you want to give the final boss another shot I believe you just have to press e to interact with the boss. Either way, appreciate the kind words :)
all sorts of hideous creatures
There's a pretty devastating softlock + save issue. It doesn't seem like stat upgrades get saved, only the your story progress, money, and Frens you've collected. So whenever a save file is loaded, each Fren reverts back to their base stats. This is made worse because the final boss room has places where you can get softlocked before you can trigger the dialogue/fight:
This happens on the right side as well. Reloading a save to solve the softlock resets everyone's stats, which then makes the boss fight impossible, I'm guessing, unless you grind back to where you were.
I still had a good time with the game, though. It was nice being surprised by the wide variety of things referenced in the Fren roster, and the art and music was great. I'll probably try again later with a new team.
Thank you for letting me know, and for playing the game. Sorry that you lost progress, will be trying to put out a patch for this soon.
Okay, now that I got it to run, holy moly that was charming. The soundtrack was excellent, the Frens were charming, the writing was funny, it was wonderful work!
Thanks so much! Glad you were able to play
I'm not sure why, but this is the only FrenJam game so far that my computer has reported as a virus and makes me unable to download. Just a heads up!
My game started being flagged by Windows Defender for no reason as well. Funny enough my GF tried downloading this game to test if this was some kind of shenanigan and to our surprise, this got flagged too.
If you're on Windows 11, you gotta look for the Security settings and restore the quarantined file on Window Defender.
Also you may wanna check if your game is getting flagged on someone else's PC too since we're all using the same engine.
Thanks for letting me know, that's disappointing. It didn't let you override the detection at all?
Unfortunately, Windows Defender on Windows 11 is stupidly agressive, and will immediately snatch the file into quarantine unless you either create an exception beforehand or downright disable the thing. We didn't caught this until last night when I happen to ask for more testing, and we woudn't have known about this since me and my brother used a different anti-virus.
Yeah... and theres no real solution except buying a certificate from windows lol
We could not believe that THE WALL was in this game!
It really made our day when we got him, and we carried him all the way to the end! xD
Thank you for playing! The Wall hard carries lol