Wow, the full manga presentation with screentones and fullcolor pages! I knew some teams were working in this style, but I didn’t think it would go as far as almost panel-per-panel illustration! That’s an impressive amount of illustrations! There are even animated sequences with effects that even webcomics rarely use!
The drawings are sometimes changing a little across panels, and I had difficulties recognising the character without glasses during a fight scene (I suppose he doesn’t need them when summoning gods), but the angles and poses are punchy!
Usually I stop after a few scenes when a VN gets too long to continue later, but I ran through the end on this one. I guess the fact it’s all dialogues and reads like a manga really helped (in fact it was shorter than I thought, but I wouldn’t have minded even if it was longer).
I was studying how other jam entries manage to do short stories, and this one is a good example! It is self-contained but hints at a bigger world like traditional one-shots. And you could keep it short by focusing on a key time of character evolution and hinting at the future.
Also, I like how the duo mixes and matches usual power-personality attributes. Instead of having a bland foil and a superhero-style character with both powers and confidence, powers and confidence are split across them, and the interactions between them matters.
I couldn’t believe no one commented on that one yet, but I see the comments are just on the main game page. I suppose more non-jammers played it, which is also a good thing!