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A nice game with a very interesting take on the theme and a well written story.

TLDR; Game good, story good, UI was sometimes frustrating

Good:

The story was well written, and the characters thoughts on each other made for excellent world building.

The way linking people together was an integral part of game play and not an afterthought was nice.

It felt like a finished game

Could be improved:

I found that the strings in the main menu made it hard to click characters with lots of connections without opening the text editor, so I ended up not using them much.

I wish there could have been more reason to talk to the dad, nothing he says really helps the investigation.

The way the cards start out stacked on top of each other and not spread out is kind of annoying.

Great job on finishing this for the jam and I hope my thoughts help. :)

outstanding

Forgot one; getting hit by enemies should have some kind of animation or effect

Love the game! The one criticism I have is that the player feels disconnected from the world. A couple ways to remedy this would be:

• Increase the line shader thickness to match the line weight of the character (maybe only a little thinner to keep it in the background)
• The animations currently feel a little clunky, If you look closely at paper Mario you'll notice that the character animations have few frames, but the sprites themselves are moved smoothly. Stretching, squshing, and rotating the player sprite are great ways to make the character animations smoother while still maintaining that funky paper Mario look.
• Give the player a shadow to attach them to the ground and help with judging jump height.
• Raise the camera angle so its easier to see where you are jumping to.

Hope this helps!