Aside from the trauma invoked by the corporate world, meetings, and Teams notifications (though Teams was more of a remote learning in university sorta thing more than work) this was great!
The dialogue was dry and witty as per usual with your games, the programmer art (at least on the cover) has continued to gradually evolve, and the game didn't feel like it dragged on for too long with the exception of one part I'll mention later.
The gameplay was more varied than I expected from an RPG maker game, what with the combat, key searching, and the part with the Tortoise. And speaking of tortoise I love the little nod to another game idea in the cafeteria.
The high level of interaction was great, I always loved how many little details and jokes your games scatter throughout. I was surprised how much there was since I knew you had very little time to spend on this. But as someone whose had to work in large corporations, I'm still surprised how well you manage to capture the feeling considering as far as I know you haven't worked for a big corp lol.
The one section I had difficulty with was finding the key for the archives. Since I had gone through and spoken to every NPC I could find before entering the archives I think it must've flushed out my memory of the one I was actually supposed to speak to. And I went back to Keira and she suggested talking to the private guards, which I interpreted as privates acting as guards lol. So I went around talked to all the airforce guys and gave up, wasn't until you told me I remembered the NPC I was supposed to speak to. That was the only part of the game that really dragged and it was my own fault 😳.
But the story progressed in a nice fun way, and I love how the world vaguely tied back into the other games of the Ja Wizardverse. Mostly by just being a weird mish mash of stuff, which is perfect for an iconic SBIG franchise.
And holy shit that ending rap, what a work of art, especially with the metal section! It almost reminded me of the ending rap from Rogue Warrior lmao.
Great work! I'm happy you were able to revisit this world again!