Great game with some very nice visuals and a story with some heartwarming moments and very funny situations and options. I enjoyed the amount of choices it had and I really like the timed choices as well! This is the first of its type I see on a Ren'py game. The music was also great.
As for character designs, Stacey looked great and Beans leaning over the corner of the screen and her expressions were just sooooo charismatic and charming. Absolutely fantastic.
If I do have a criticism, though, even if the story was good, there was some heavy tonal backlash by the end which did detract a little of my experience, but I do not mean to sound negative on the story: it was great through and through. On a more positive note, I thought the intrusive thoughts choice were really funny and had some very witty delivery, like the raccoon one.
Overall, I enjoyed this one a lot, there was a lot of heart poured into it and the kiss ending was very satisfying and well drawn! Great job :)
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Bury Your Gays's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Halloween Themed | #42 | 4.353 | 4.353 |
| Log Line | #44 | 4.294 | 4.294 |
| Character Designs | #66 | 4.529 | 4.529 |
| User Interface Design | #86 | 3.882 | 3.882 |
| Overall | #91 | 4.059 | 4.059 |
| Story | #92 | 4.118 | 4.118 |
| Music | #92 | 3.824 | 3.824 |
| Voice Acting | #96 | 2.176 | 2.176 |
| Accessibility | #98 | 3.765 | 3.765 |
| Game Page Design | #110 | 3.412 | 3.412 |
| Sound Effects | #110 | 3.059 | 3.059 |
| Game Graphic & Logo Design | #120 | 3.529 | 3.529 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Beans is such a cute protagonist - I really enjoyed reading this story from her perspective! I love the varied choices and writing in this game too: the blend of horror and comedy captures the teen slasher feeling perfectly.
I think my favorite part of this VN is the timed choices, though: they really add to the tension of the overall story.
I got two bad ends (the bear trap and oil drum hiding ends) and the good ending during my playthrough - but I'll definitely come back and check out all of the endings. This was a really fun time overall, thank you!
Bean is such a dork lol and this game is honestly really fun to play. I can't believe you get options like put feet in bear trap.
Rare is the game both set in the morally correct time period (the 1980s) and using the morally correct aspect ratio (4:3). But also the script made me grin several times, and I was delighted by the art, especially the expressive dialogue character portraits. And through luck or judgement—I'll claim the latter—in my first play-through, Beans avoided the bear trap.
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