Body Rebellion explores the urges of compulsion in a unique and surreal way. I think that the core idea of juxtaposing a daily routine with the player choice to pick away at your nose is a good metaphor.
I feel the game works on two ways. Many people have habits that lurk beneath their conscience and confronting them can be an interesting way of questioning how much control we have over our minds and also our bodies. But also the game as I see it is primarily a metaphor about coping mechanisms and how our response to stressors (i.e work) can have various impacts on our physical health.
The surreal touches to the game added a bit of humour and the multiple endings provided for good replay value, as well as allowing the player to understand the different themes of the game.
I don't know if I'd change anything per se, but perhaps I'd have taken the subtlety and absurdity of the theme and ramped it up. Why stop at having your skull leak out of your nose when an obsessive nose-picker would likely grind their nose into a stump too? Or, yknow, have a little brain matter fall out!
Full disclosure: I have picked my nose since starting this review.
Thanks for submitting Body Rebellion to the SCREAM MACHINE jam!
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