An interesting little demo!
There isn't a lot here, so I can't comment about much, but here are some of the positives I found in the few minutes of playtime I had :
- Art and Animation. The art looks good and the characters are very expressive even with the limited amount of detail afforded by the art-style. The character design is well done and you get a good general vibe of what their personality might be just by looking at them.
- Sound design. There is no music (apart from one instance which I will comment on later) but the "voices" (the unique sounds accompanying character dialog) are well made. Obviously very reminiscent of the character voices in Undertale and Animal Crossing, but that's a good thing.
- Game design. Not sure what to call this or how to describe it exactly, but the game FEELS like it has secrets and easter eggs. Honestly I'm still wondering if I've missed a whole secret game or something. The only thing I've found is that by choosing "new game" over and over the game comments on it before eventually looping. I mean the whole continue vs new game thing, that feels like an obvious "SECRET HERE" flashing sign, but if it is then I'm too stupid to figure it out lol.
Now here are some things which could use some work :
- The dialog. The dialog itself is fine, the demo is so short I can't comment much on its overall quality. HOWEVER, there is some bad spelling and badly phrased sentences. From the description it seems the team is from Thailand, so I don't blame them for this, but this point is still important to note.
- The controls. Now I don't know if this is an issue on my end, but it took me a while to figure out that the "z" key was the main action key. I walked aimlessly around the elevator for a while before figuring out I had to press "z" to continue the dialog.
- The music. From the description it seems that AI was at least partially used for the song that plays during the fight. As AI steals from artists and is extremely polluting, I would HIGHLY recommend that it be removed from a potential future version. An unfinished, unpolished song made by a human will always be better than anything made by or with the help of AI.
Overall I think it definitely has potential, and I will be keeping an eye out for what the developer(s) decide to do with it in the future.
And if it turns out that I am just stupid and there is actually a hidden layer behind this game, then that would be very funny. Seriously though, I keep wondering if I missed something...