Where oh where do I begin with this? Awesome, awesome, awesome. I have a true soft spot for games that don't take themselves too seriously and I love this pastiche on Stanley Parable (and others in the genre).
I played through twice because I wanted to see both endings, and while we've already spoken a bit on Discord I'll write everything out here.
First things first. We need to discuss some completely ILLEGAL activities in this game that I am here to haul you to The Hague for crimes against humanity:
- VSync - You have gone to all this effort to optimise your game to within an inch of its life, only for my GPU to spin up to a million RPM and sound like it's about to fly out my window. Needs to be enabled by default or at least an option somewhere.
- Spinny Hat - Why could I not spin this? Unacceptable!
- The Menu - If you have a valve on the menu, and I've been spinning valves all game long. I fully expect to be able to spin that valve at some point! Illegal!
Okay with that out of the way. This is a top game for me this jam; there is so much I liked and enjoyed. The narrative is excellent, solid writing, very funny, and a love letter to the games that inspired it. The levels are excellent and ramp up in interesting ways. As I was playing through I was thinking what I might do as a dev in this situation; one idea I had was for the player to have to spin themselves, and then it turns out you had thought of it! But then you took me by complete surprise.
Sure, there are a couple of assets missing textures, the light leaks at distance. But I think any of the games small issues are so superficial I didn't care in the slightest.
I think there are two things I would change, or at least changes that I would prefer:
- The dark room seems to have confused most players; I would potentially have wanted a 'return to menu' button which may have more clearly indicated to the player that there was more, this could be augmented with an additional voice line if the player re-enters that scene.
- I wish this game had a web build! I feel like so many people might pass this by due to the binary size and purely not being web.
All in all, I really enjoyed this greatly. I hope you come back to it, and I look forward to playing it if you do choose to update it. Thank you very much.