The custom art in this game is really beautiful and parts of the dialogue were rather witty, but a larger majority felt forced and awkward / like it didn't fully fit with the overall tone and aesthetic of the game. It did make me laugh that the entire story was based around Juno's lack of strawberries -- and riding on a penguin made me laugh!

Overall, I think you have an interesting start to something with this one, but there are parts that could definitely use some more time and polish. I hope you keep working on this one!

So ended up streaming the game. Your battle system is really quite annoying. Non-standard keys, strange key positioning. Normally you'd do something like X and C or X and Z or Z and C, not D and Q. You'd normally do Q and E or D and A, not Q and D. It gets worse because there really is no feedback of "hey this is what you are supposed to do". "You should dodge!" With what key?!

Bugs in every map. I couldn't even get one minute into the game without a bug. Invisible walls everywhere too, including one that blocks the way you are supposed to go. (Potential hard block depending on how you do the puzzle).

The penguin is badly coded, especially in the grove and when returning home.

The battles really aren't fun. I ended up just cheesing the later fight because it wasn't fun to do normally. First battle I ended up skipping it because it just wasn't even fun.

The dialogues are extremely slow and repetitive, especially at the end. When you do a "return to before" type ending, you need some sort of warning for the player of "that is the end, but you can keep exploring".

It got bad enough that I skipped most of the side dialogue and just rushed the ending about halfway through. The dialogue is really just painfully slow for someone who reads at a decent speed since you can't skip it due to the waits. Like, every single dialogue has a wait it seems.

Lots of questionable word choices (words that don't mean what they are used for, possible typos, etc.

I got this for judging in round one, here are my thoughts:

Art style of this game is definitely different. Not sure what I think of the MC though. Wasn't expecting a battle system like what  you have though. Unfortunately your battle system lacks a tutorial which is sorely needed. I had no idea what key was attack so I had to just select to skip the battle so I could see more of the game.

Then I got to the forest chasing the squirrel and was stuck by some bushes. I was stuck on that for like 10 minutes as I spammed every key on my keyboard until I found the one for attack. You really should be sure the player knows what it is. On my keyboard it ended up being K. 

Unfortunately you got a lot of bugs once I get to the smiling kingdom. I was able to walk through some walls to get on the top wall. I was able to get stuck in a wall of a house (I did get back out after a little). But the worst bug was once I was told where to go, I encountered the lady then got kicked back, so I went back and that entire scene relooped. I wasn't able to get past it either, it was an endless loop. 

I think overall you have a good start to the game, but the end feels like you started to run out of time. A little more time for bug testing, and a proper battle tutorial would go a long ways for this game. Hopefully you expand on this and add those in once the contest is over.

cute, fun and very challenging! I liked this so far, the characters are hilarious and the story is fun!

It was cute, although I didn't know it would turn in a game of reflexes and being expected to know what a Moon Dash is without being told. The combat part wasn't my forte and I did get rather frustrated with the trees, however, the rest of t he game from what I played was rather charming and I loved the use of custom graphics. Sometimes, my attention waned when the dialogue boxes were too slow going to the second line or next set of messages, but that could be a me thing.

Definitely looks promising, though! Good job!

i Love the artwork!