The art on this was fantastic. The game did have some frame rate issues on my machine. I played this with an i5-3470 with integrated graphics which can usually handle a decent amount of optimized gameplay with no issues. I did just get a new geforce gt 1030 gpu and the games works much better now, which leads me to believe the game has a high amount of draw calls, possibly due to lighting/ no static batching, single material instances, ect?
Other than that I really enjoyed the art and the story had me hooked, but due to the poor frame rate issue when I first played through it made it feel dragged out and took the punch of the story away for me. I streamed it here:
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The Man in the Mirror's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art Direction | #1 | 4.630 | 4.630 |
| Overall | #78 | 3.511 | 3.511 |
| Game Design | #94 | 3.426 | 3.426 |
| Fun | #139 | 3.204 | 3.204 |
| Innovation | #184 | 3.074 | 3.074 |
| Theme | #216 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
Ranked from 54 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
Nice to see such a rich story based game in the Jam, impressive art direction and good writing.
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Face 2 FaceAstonishing what you have created in just a week. The art is beyond amazing! Truly :) The story itself is really interesting and is paced extremely well. It you were to update this I'd wanna see some hints of the monster in reflections of glass or mirrors, like you see it for a glimpse before it disappears (just a suggestion not a criticism).
This game is amazing and really well put together. The polish is amazing! My only small gripe would be the character walks a little slow for me. I know you want to build up slowly in a game like this, and perhaps this opinion is mine alone, but since part of the game is walking around and finding the next story beat, I would have liked the character to move faster.
But yea, truly incredible! Great job :)
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Dark ConnectionVery nice! Artwork is great, lighting, atmosphere, sound, etc. The walk animation is a bit rough, and I kind of wish they just ran. Story was quite creepy, and the overall presentation was very good! I wish there was more "game", but Great job overall!
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Toy CaversI love the mystery noir vibes this game has, made my hair stand various times just from the creepy atmosphere! The lighting and art are fantastic, really brings the world to live. Well done on a great adventure game! :D
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Switchboard ConnectorI really enjoyed the art in this game. Everything looked very cohesive. I enjoyed the story and overall just had a good time.
Thank you for sharing.
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Reapers CreepersThe ambiance, with the light cascading in the morning was super cool. The walking speed was a bit too slow for me. Interesting story, got a little confused by the ending cutscene haha. Nice!
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The Human ConnectionArt style looks very pretty. And story is very interesting. Movement animations are very well maded too. Good work ^^
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Data CourierArt style is astounding ! The game is a little slow and audio feedback is missing. But it still a great work !
(Godot team !)
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O Key CupidLoved the art style! Kind of reminds me of "The Last Night" with the realistic lighting skybox and street lights. Interesting story as well and a good pacing. Well done!
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Arcnia Highlands - Jam EditionI rarely comment but this caught my eyes and it is also one of my favorite games this time jam.
Great atmosphere, visuals and story. Gameplay wise it’s not up there with everything else but it’s really not bad either. The animations do need to be more “polished” but nonetheless, it’s serviceable (and animations can be quite hard to get right too) The UI needs some more polishing (like better padding) for making it look nicer with everything else but that’s alright and it’s a nitpick.
Amazing experience throughout!
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