As someone who recently had to go through blood-related problems, I'm surprised how informative this is! The vampire is cute, he's so nervous here compared in other games LOL i wish i can be 'rude' to him in playful manner without making him upset :") like shut up and bite me already, you dork >:) overall a great game!!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Halloween Themed | #68 | 4.125 | 4.125 |
| Story | #81 | 4.188 | 4.188 |
| Sound Effects | #88 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Overall | #90 | 4.063 | 4.063 |
| Log Line | #95 | 3.813 | 3.813 |
| Game Page Design | #98 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Character Designs | #99 | 4.125 | 4.125 |
| Music | #105 | 3.563 | 3.563 |
| Game Graphic & Logo Design | #105 | 3.813 | 3.813 |
| User Interface Design | #113 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
| Voice Acting | #118 | 1.875 | 1.875 |
| Accessibility | #118 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This was so cosy and cute ^-^ I haven't got all the endings yet, but the first one I reached just by picking the things I would actually say myself was the true end :3
I bloody love tea x3 which, being British, is a bit of a cliche, though I do actually love coffee more :D But I don't think I've ever had pumpkin spiced tea, so I'll have to try that sometime cos I have had pumpkin spiced latte, cappuccino, hot chocolate, iced latte, frappe, and cake xD Need to get on the tea!
Anyways, absolutely adorable and a lovely treat to play on a chilly afternoon with a cup of tea in hand :3
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Tunnel VisionOmg I'm genuinely so (pleasantly) surprised that you got the true end on first try? And the things you would actually say yourself!? :D You might be the first one! Others usually get the normal end first to the point I start questioning myself whether I have a weird sense of what are the "nice things to say" XD For this game I'm letting the players decide their own image of the MC, but since it's a very interesting coincidence (and how you got true end first try) I will tell you that the MC is, canonically British XD
And yeah coffee rocks!! I'm more of a coffee person as well :) ((definitely not because I'm sleep deprived or anything hahah))
Anyways! Thank you so much for playing!!
This is sweet and cute game! I like the vampire, he is cute and suuuuper polite, I almost want to yell, "If you don't bite me now, I'll bite you first!" ヽ（≧□≦）ノ
I know it's made in RPG Maker, but for people who play VN, usually they will want to have the ability to rollback or look back at the log/history, skipping dialogue (especially if you have choices, so they can explore other choices/replay it again without reading back what they have seen), auto forward text (so we can still read the text without too much clicking while eating), and save/load access when we need to make choice or avoid bad end. It's small accessibility things, but it'll definitely make this fun game even more fun! Anyway great job! q(≧▽≦q)
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Dream In/Dream Out Chapter 1Thank you so much for playing, for the comment, and the suggestion!!
You're right, I planned to use Renpy, but unfortunately due to irl stuff I didn't have the time to learn it first :") I planned to add a save option on each choice, but thought that since this is route-based and you have to repeat the whole thing anyway, it wasn't that necessary. I also definitely should make a button to skip stuff though! I hope when I finally get into Renpy I will no longer have these accessibility issues ;; Thank you!
Nice story, art and audio! I got the normal ending first, got it again, then read the guide and got the other three.
Story and theme: I liked the story, although even after seeing all four endings I wonder why the MC does this. I guess they’re friends with the vampire or something, but it also seems like they only meet for tea and blood and never meet for other reasons, or at least I seem to remember a line saying “see you in three months” or something like that. And between being set on Halloween and involving a vampire drinking blood I think it’s pretty halloweeny.
Side note: in English, you “eat” soup, but there might be languages where you can drink soup. Or languages that use the same word for eating and drinking. I’m mentioning that since the vampire seems to mention other cultures when talking about drinking tea.
Audio: Both pieces of music seem pretty chill and also a bit worried. And I like the sound effects (perhaps in part because sound effect seem to often be one of the first pieces of polish to go when a jam entry developer is running out of time).
Art: Not that there’s a lot of it, but what there is seems pretty good. And it doesn’t feel like there should be more than there is.
UI and Accessibility: A bit basic. I can’t even speed up the text (which can get a bit annoying when playing several times to get the different endings; there isn’t even something that speeds up the text appearing if I click or press a key before a line finishes “typing”). And there isn’t a back, history, skip or save button. There’s a settings menu so I can change the volume of the music and sound effects, although I’m not sure what “always dash” and “command remember” are supposed to do (probably leftover options from some engine functionality you aren’t using).
Marketing: The logline and the logo together show pretty well roughly what type of game it is, and the game page seems pretty polished too.
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Tide between CountriesThank you for the very detailed review!!
-The soup comment was interesting! I actually googled first whether you "drink" or "eat" soup, and I am aware of the differences across cultures and languages, but decided to specifically follow English grammar-wise for his not-so-thoughtful rant XD
-About the UI, you are very right :") As stated in my devlog, I'm also not proud of it, and due to time limits I had to use a software I'm already comfortable with, that is not really designed for Visual Novels ;;
Edit: forgot to mention, you can make the text appear faster by long-pressing the enter key!
I'll definitely take your review into account! And thanks for playing and getting all the endings!
You’re welcome! And it looks like I can long-press the left mouse button too. Some entries require me to use the mouse for choices and the keyboard for advancing text, but this one at least lets me advance the text with the mouse and make choices with the keyboard too. And I noticed that you formatted the text a bit like subtitles (i.e. I think you manually inserted linebreaks so that I wouldn’t see the start of a word appearing on one line and then not fitting on that line and having to fall unto the line below).
And since I didn’t end my review with a conclusion, here’s one: What I liked most was the story with the educational bits (and the logline too), and what I’d suggest improving would probably be mentioning the thing about long-pressing enter/space/LMB to make the text advance faster.
Nice story, themes, and art. Good choice of background music. The black and white shots with the red are a nice touch. I kinda saw where it was going from the beginning, but at the same time felt it had an unspoken sexual innuendo the whole time. I was left with some questions at the end, mainly wondering why is the protagonist doing it. Altogether this was a sweet little simple spooky story, nice work!
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First Do No HarmReally enjoyed the story! It would be really cool if you included an ending guide. I played through it twice, but I got the normal ending both times. I really like the music and art style as well.
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