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Saya no Jenerikku Anime Gemu's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| SCARIEST GAME | #35 | 2.556 | 2.556 |
| BEST GAME | #42 | 2.667 | 2.667 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This was definitely a strange ride. It lost me once she started walking home, presumably because I haven't read the source material, but I was enjoying it up to that point. You can definitely see the effort that went into this, with the multiple movies, and lots of transitions and effects.
While it's been forever since I read Saya, it sure makes me wonder what the original game would've been like if it had adopted this sort of more straight horror style than veer off into the lovecraft-lore tangents that it did. Probably better.
I'm a little biased because I have played the original, but the sheer 'what' factor along with some genuinely unnerving imagery made it fairly effective. I agree with Animaljere, it reminds me of the weird horror stuff of the ring, with little to no sense behind it - in my opinion, the scariest stuff doesn't make sense.
"There is a reason to everything that it does.... calculated in nature. Thinking twelve steps ahead."
The Rabbit Hole
I felt the music fit the scenes really well, and I liked that there were steady scene changes with nice illustrations and sound effects. The professor's video made me lol. I really like just how weird and colorful and full of change it is. It reminds me of watching weird old horror forms, even before the ring and etc.
That actually makes sense as I grew up reading Lovecraft, King, etc and on the films of John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, etc.
(I'm an old gen-x fella!)
The game makes more sense in place of our other games and the hints scattered around the web:
rabbit hole