Probably the most ambitious game in the entire jam.
I did honestly lost patience with some puzzle during the name-finding maze, and from there I was able to brute force it to get the memory scenes, but then I press the bail me out button.
I had to point it out mostly because some missing bits of the story were unlocked clearing the puzzle the hard way, so while I had a decent general picture, some I do miss some keypoint of the story in a way that makes it talk about it a bit frustating. Spoilers from now on
One of them is unfortunatly how does it reflect the jam theme: yeah the main choice is between going towards the light to the pearly gates, buf from there I'm not sure why it would be appealing, where is the darkness , outside of the jelous ex boyfriend (?) getting call mr light. Skill issue on my part, tbh.
The story was quite nice, but it still hard to evaluate working with the cliffnotes of the most important scenes. I understand that alchool may be behind the car accident that killed Azyel, I think Gabriel and his future wolf husband reconected while the bird was going under rehabilitation and some of his sleeping pills have caused the mc death, not sure exactly how, probably accidental OD? But then I don't know how the event played out. I liked what I read, but I'm not sure if the story sticks the landing. I got the bad ending where mc goes back without cracking all the clues and he just can't reconize his houseband. That was nice.
Presentation was nice, the puzzles were well comunicated and the cg used for the scrolling blocks puzzles were all really pretty. The sprite were also really charming. The music was perfect for the job, it never felt grading even while frantically rewriting the maze notes on a different page because I made a mistakes somewhere near room 20 so I had to trace it all back. :)))))))))))))))) This is fine. I'm fine I did solve that one.
Maze3 broke me, I understand the gist of it, but then I kept getting confused by having to constantly trace back to try and find the north on the map so I could take better notes. At some point I made a mad man rush, so all rooms had names and I just brute force my way thought the two memories, but I stumbled to late on a couple of letters later somewhere near the exit. Skill issue again.||
I did have fun playing it and I may try to get thought the puzzles I couldn't clear the first time in the future. Really interesting game.