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I loooved the idea of playing as a snail, snails are one of my biggest faves! (I just slightly favour sea slugs) The visuals were so cute and I was especially impressed by the giant african land snail sprite. Such great detail crammed into a gameboy art style! I also loved collecting Snail Rules, and I was impressed that this is the first game I've seen in the jam that had a fully complete story and dialogue.
However, the control scheme was a bit hard to use for right-handed folks. Directional keys and the mouse means I'm either trying to switch between them both with the same hand or have to move my keyboard far to the left.
I also felt it was kind of a let down that the ending doesn't involve the "eat enough to be higher level than the frogs" gameplay, and instead the final two challenges were troll puzzles with no solution. It was pretty annoying having to click through all the answers to every question again and again, watch all the animations of the cups, just to have another attempt at the last question which is impossible anyway. I felt it was really unintuitive because "snails don't cheat", but the answer is that yes, they cheated. And same for only being allowed to resign after moving multiple chess pieces, when the instructions say only move one, and "snails listen to rules". IDK, it made me feel like I hadn't earned the happy feast by being a good snail. Maybe it coulda ended with "Final snail rule: snails speak up when things are unfair!", to make it all make more sense?
Sorry for such a long comment haha! I just loved this soooo much!! I got so invested in making the giant snail proud.  - Bonnford