I AM RATING THESE ALL THESE JAM SUBMISSIONS RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER. THERE ARE HIGH HIGHS AND LOW LOWS BUT PLEASE DON’T TAKE THIS TOO PERSONALLY, AFTERALL, WE ALL ONLY HAD A MONTH.

Story (1):

I wish that this had the same magic that Glass Half Full had. WHERE ARE THE NOODS!?!

Perhaps the NSFW content that you teased would’ve at least bumped it up to 2-Stars, uwu.

Presentation (5):

This is my first and only game that I’ve played on PlayDate. I have nothing to compare this to so therefore default it is the best thing I’ve played on PlayDate.

5 Stars.

Creativity (5):

You, maniac! You made this, on goddamn, PLAYDATE!!!

Total (11):

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The choice of platform certainly earns the game some uniqueness points, and the limited visuals give it a very distinctive look. The engine feels kind of ungraceful, though, with the text box being so small that a lot of lines are awkwardly forced to span over multiple screens and with the sprites being so large that you can only see the faces (well, lucky that the assets were familiar).

On the writing side, my main impressions were "fast" and "utilitarian" – a lot of happens and a lot of locations are visited, but nothing really leaves much of an impression, and even the central relationship feels mostly like a hint of things to come in a theoretical continuation. I think the fact that the titular noodles don't really factor into the story epitomizes the problem pretty well. Some kind of hook or high concept premise missing, something to make the game stand out.