Visually speaking, it was beautiful. I like the effect of the cubes for the second layer of grass. Gave it a more japanese feel. The sound effects were nice too.

The dialogue was well written. I liked the different personalities that each house had. I just wish the text could print out a bit faster. It also got repetitive after a while though, but this project definitely has a lot of potential. I like how each house has a different personality, but they're a bit too consistent. I always curse the house with the thief and always bless the shogun's house because I think he lowers my hunger meter more. I wish there were consequences to cursing though.

Overall, it was a pretty unique experience and a visual spectacle. I had fun and managed to win!

I like the visual and audio focus of this game, felt nice and snappy and had a nice charm to it. Though I didn't manage to get too attached to any of characters and there never seemed to be any consequence to cursing people.

But there's definitely a solid base here for a bigger game, if it was possible to either have say the thief executed by the officer, the  boys family robbed by the thief, or the blacksmith become destitute then I think that could really force people to think hard before cursing or blessing anyone.

Also as a suggestion for the UI maybe have the indicators from townspeople be a bit brighter. I actually only found out there were characters other than the blacksmith, boy and prostitute because of jonathons review.

Good job overall though!

Nice art and music! I felt like there was more to be done to flesh out the mechanic around blessing and cursing. I think there's potential to expand on this and do some worldbuilding and impactful storytelling. I think that you have something nice here! Thank you for the entry!

I got it working from the direct download. Well executed with nice graphics and audio. I like the idea of having to choose between going hungry and cursing the humans.

However, I did not feel like there was much of a moral choice to make - I could choose selfishly based on the hunger / fortune bars without feeling any remorse.

This could be solved perhaps  by fleshing out the characters in the town. For example what If I blessed the thief and he stole the Boys fish? If you make the player feel for the characters then all of a sudden you have real moral dilemmas for Inari.

So I think you have a good original idea here that's worth developing further.

Would not install for me from the itch.io Windows app. Will try direct download later.