Very nice graphics and story! I included it in my Touhou Jam 5 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use of Theme | #1 | 4.571 | 4.571 |
| Story/Writing | #1 | 4.464 | 4.464 |
| Visuals | #4 | 4.679 | 4.679 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.786 | 3.786 |
| Concept | #17 | 3.714 | 3.714 |
| Gameplay | #41 | 2.393 | 2.393 |
| Challenge (Touhou but Fair) | #44 | 2.107 | 2.107 |
| Audio | #47 | 1.393 | 1.393 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Barley
External Asset Credits
Ren'Py
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I usually hate the idea of having merely the illusion of choice in games, but it was very fitting to have our beloved Reimu strike down the notion of acting virtuously at every turn, especially when I thought to myself to try leaving the good person act in my second playthrough
Love it all, though I do wonder if the dragon god was purposefully left unfinished?
Actually, I was going to add a dragon sprite and a good path. But the scope kept contracting to fit available time and, rather than go full Kinetic Novel, I just used the lack of content as a gag. I was expecting people to play "paragon", too (this seems to be a phenomenon in RPGs), so they'd see 100% of the content first time around. Save those precious jam playing seconds.
Thanks for the review!
This is no doubt the best visuals for the theme, and it's hilarious how you bent all the folklore you referenced with an if-story, and that's exactly the Reimu I know.
Maybe people will say it's cultural appropriation and I honestly don't have the art expertise to judge that, but I think it's a solid attempt on Ukiyo-e style with efforts and they are all presented as they're supposed to be.
I did think about cultural appropriation in regards the quality of the end product. i.e. in the case of a 3 day jam where only a best-attempt can be made to stay faithful to the iconic style and it's cultural nuances. In other words, is cultural appropriation a property of the work in context, or within a vacuum?
Someone smarter than me can contemplate that. Either way, I hope nobody minds and that they let me know if they do.
And thanks for the review!
Loved the theme and the drawings were beautiful! The script was really funny and lol at Reimu's dialogue choices.
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