Oh man, this is something.

Just an FYI, my game crashed on day 12, so this is based on reaching that part of the game.

The story, was peak cinema. The moment where gigi hears the news and all of the music just cuts, bro, it was such a good and atmospheric moment. on the topic of music, it's very chill and brings me back to councilrys rpg, and that's always good. The dialogue is good, and that it takes two and a way out reference particularly was very fun.

I can appreciate the simple enemies and combat, it was very easy to fight in the mines. But that's also it's downfall. The enemies are too easy and simple to fight for longer than 10 minutes total, so after the 20 mark, I already did not want to go back in the mines. A lot of it could've been fixed with one or two other fighting moves, and a couple other enemy types. An ore counter would also be nice, an inventory even. I did not know how many of each ore type I had, so it was just hoping I had enough to get the next whatever. 

It's a solid game that could use some more features in the fighting department. Of course everyone did a great job, but props to the writer and audio designers, those were the best parts.

ps. if there's something I missed, because the game just up and went nuclear on me, I might rethink to play it till the end. But as it stands I don't want back in the mines TwT

Who was in charge of BGM in the Cavern? BECAUSE BRO! The intense feelings of nostalgic and atmosphere shivered me a lot! Props to the composers!

I have a lot of feelings on this game, mostly good. I thoroughly enjoyed it-- the writing is pretty good, I *really* love the music, the modeling is lovely and the game has a particular vibe to it that is just perfect? I saw the "twist" coming from a mile away, but damn it really *really* made me want to lock in. I find myself really worrying about dying in the cave and not being able to talk to Ceci, or just kinda dreading what was to come as the days ticked by. Also I adore the enemies that shoot up and then try to fall on top of you, I don't know why they were like really fun to play around as an obstacle.

That said though, I am uh. really washed and those fucking birds destroyed me many times. Which I think led to my crash around Day 16? I gave CC a module that night since I could afford it and then it just crashed. Definitely get the jam scope creep though, it does seem like this game has *a lot* of edge cases to consider, considering the days you can do things, dying skipping ahead days, the time-- so on and so forth. This game is very long, especially with the jam time limit though, which is so cool. This is like, one of the most expandable concepts ever and it's just great.

Everyone's already said it and I do agree, gameplay gets really repetitive. I am not exactly a grind kind of person, sometimes I really am, but with the same two enemies and not really any changes in the cave, plus the resource demand growing really high, crashing that late in the game felt `real` bad. I'll definitely be giving it another shot, I need to see the ending real bad, but damn...

Gigi's and Ceci's cute yapping gibberish noises that play during dialogue are the oh so delicious icing on the yummy cake 😋 I enjoyed playing this game.

... I cannot emphasize enough how much I really like those Gigi and Ceci noises 🥺and I like the music too!

Wow, this game wasn't at all what I thought it would be. As background context, I'm not a big fan of farming games or cozy games. It just isn't really my type of genre, so I held off on playing this game for quite a while because of it. 

I won't go too much into critiques because I see almost everyone here already said them (enemy variety, grindiness, crashes). Most of them can be chalked up to "game jam time pressure". And I understand. So I'll focus a bit on concept and potential.

I'll start by saying... as someone who hates the farming game genre, this game actually got me more hooked then almost any farming game I've played. 

In a way... I feel like this game almost feels like a subversion of the genre. Or a deconstruction of it. Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But the twist caught me completely off guard and I suddenly found myself way more engaged then I thought I would be. If anything this game shows just how important story is at changing motivations in a game.

Anyways, I think this may be just me but I actually found that the game changed from a Cozy game to actually quite a stressful game. But in a good way (for me). As in... I was really engaged. I was taking more risks trying to get every scrap of material and seed I could in order to make sure I could afford the modules every day. I was thinking about how to optimize my planting, and I was making tough decisions between buying upgrades and buying CC modules.

I do not know your design intentions, but I feel like I would enjoy a game that doubled down on this aspect of the game, as it really is kind of heartbreaking to see CC slowly degrade, and I think that emotional drive can be a powerful motivator. As you start to work tirelessly to prolong what could potentially be an inevitable end, I could imagine a lot of cool moments and great storytelling potential here. 

You could work tirelessly to spend every last second trying to extend CC's life as long as possible, but in turn be barely able to see her? Or you could take it a bit more slowly and spend some moments just enjoying the time they have left?

You could make small interactions where things become harder and harder for CC, and maintenance tasks become more complicated and more demanding over time.

There is a lot of potential for some really powerful moments here! I think... if you guys decide to continue onward, I think the key to focus on (besides the other things people mentioned), would be presentation. There are some cool tricks you guys do (like muting the music for one chapter, and giving CC little animations) but more is always better. The writing and the concepts are already there, it's just up to presentation to give the story justice!

Good luck, this game is definitely one of the coolest ones this jam. I think it's really funny thought how both this game and my game have a somewhat similar base premise but the story is almost... reversed.

I took a break from my crippling fantacy life ddiction to play this game some more, that's all the praise you need for it. Its a fantasic peice of work with  amazing dialouge, lovly astetics, and i love a bit of farming. Even if it can be a bit grindy but hey, i live for the grind. at least in video games..

Nice "little" game! Reminds me of stardew valley where i for sure did get addicted by the dungeons xD

Though there are a few things i should mention here:

- It is a REALLY grindy game. getting diamonds takes a lot of luck and can take up multiple days until getting enough for an upgrade/CC's module. in the end the whole game based around getting enough diamonds since i had WAY too many of any other thing (my whole field was filled with large seeds everyday by the end of the game + had 80+ iron/bronze).

- The caves are really repetitive which makes the grind less fun than other examples like that. It would really help if enemies gets stronger the further you go and getting rarer ressources the further you go, thus having a more consistent way of when you get what (maybe starting at deepness 5+ you start getting at least 1 diamond guaranteed or something). having randomized cave layout would most likely break the scope of a jam game, but that would also help.

- As others mentioned already the damage feedback is barely visible on enemies when hitting them. same can be applied when you yourself get hit. The visual indicater can definetly be improved

- Destroying all the crops can take up quite a bit of valuable time you could use for grinding since the attacking animation takes a bit until you can move again. by the amount of crops it can definetly take up quite a bit of time. I know what you went for though as gigi being gigi that really fits.

For the writing i really enjoyed it! Athmosphere, Music too! But that Ending man XDD (insert inaff ina face)

This isn't the first doomed yuri Autofister fanfic I've seen this jam, and I pray to God it isn't the last.

The gameplay's largely repetitive. It's a little more than challenging to gather the resources needed to help out Justice while managing the cost of Cece's repair module, but I suppose that's the big decision you have to make. I don't know if there's some wiggle room in letting me skip a day of getting the repair module, but I'll be damned if I don't see Gigi punch a hundred rooms' worth of rocks to get the materials for the module.

I never got to see an ending though, if there was one. I think there was a memory leak somewhere (or something, idk, I'm not exactly a programmer) and I was cranking Cece's key in the morning like always, but after maybe seven cranks the game crashed and everything froze except for the bgm which kept playing.

If you all ever consider revisiting this post-jam, I'd love to see more variety in everything. There's so much potential for expanding on the ideas you all have already laid out here; i.e., more crop variety, more enemy variety, bigger and more expressive room layouts, attack variety (combos or the ability to buy them?), etc. Like I said, there's so much potential in this game. Would almost be a waste not to do more.

Edit: I forgot to mention here that it would also have been nice if there was a clearer indication of when I hit the enemy. I know the enemy flashes red, but they're practically coloured black so you can only barely see them flash at that point. I guess that extends to the rest of the appropriate areas of gameplay: this game would benefit a lot from having effects, e.g., watering the crops (and showing that a space was already watered), impact FX (like a small graphic to show you made contact), etc.

I think my only regret was having my game get cut abruptly because of that crash. Other than that, a wonderful submission to the jam, and congrats to the whole team! 

You got the theme down so well, especially the angst when I thought I would have to spend all my materials on CC modules till she died of me not being able to afford one. The way you need to wind her up more each day is also really good.  A bit grindy but I play Runescape so this was nothing, especially with 2 of my favorite songs as BGM.

amazing game and story, sadly got crashed like at day 11 but i ruined my gameplay beforehand anyways lmao

didn't figure out i had to water the crops till day 6 so i spent my first week in bankruptcy (which kind of came back to bite me on later days due to slow kill speed)

the story is lovely and they both do feel really autofister, really good job on that behalf

the music is really good and fitting, loved it

sound design wise it felt ok at least in terms of feedback and some sound choices. there's one in particular where i didn't realize when i was hitting enemies and noticed way later there's a sound for when you're hitting them, which was barely noticeable

the gameplay felt sameish at some points but then my own fault since i didn't upgrade till late which did impact a lot, but the base idea is there and it feels good. also the iron drop rate and those birds that i hate ruined my life, not sure if the regular rocks do drop stuff or not? i recall getting something from the previous update regular rocks 

also something weird with how the punch works inside the dungeon:

- sometimes it rotates half of the way of where the mouse is aiming and sometimes it does a full rotation

- when you're moving it usually first takes the move direction priority to where you hit then it fully moves to where the mouse is aiming which feels off at certain points (gotta move, release the direction then hit with the mouse which can be odd at points)

but overall the ambience, the music and the gameplay were really chill and fun to play, lovely game

Absolutely love the vibes in this game! The ambience, the bgm and the lighting really makes this game feel soothing. Love the story too, I can't believe the legendary cure-all was just right in front of us all along.
Gameplay wise, I do wish it was less grindy, especially when there's no upgrades yet, since everything takes forever to defeat.
Maybe 1 suggestion is to implement progression to the cave, so enemies get more HP and atk the deeper you go, then make it so cleared stage cannot be cleared again until the next day. I think this will make the armor upgrade less redundant too.
Great job! Thank you for participating!