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My first 5/5. The animations, polishing (even the options menu!), sound effects and gameplay are all great. The only thing I did not understand was the bar on the right, but other than that, I have nothing to critique. Very charming and fun game!

I have now given in another try and have updated my ratings. Overall I liked it. I am not sure if the last room qualifies as a puzzle, but it must've been something fun to program, so I give it a pass. The shadow labyrinth is also not a good idea in my opinion without sound cues when pressing you've pressed all the button. Other than that, I think that the difficulty curve is a bit all over, but since it's a jam, I get it. Great to see an Undertale inspired puzzle game!

Conceptually, this is a really good idea and it makes sense within this game jam. Music is great and the sound effect is fine, however I would've liked a quick options menu to be able to adjust those.
The only notes I have on gameplay are that I would've liked it if you were able to wrap around from one sided to the other like you could in snake, or if you were also able to wrap around the bottom. Other than that, very fun concept.

To start, the art and music are fantastic. So far the best I have seen in the jam. It feels unreasonably well polished, which is great, but it also puts high expectation on the gameplay to follow up, which I think fails to do so.
The game at its core seems to be a dark interactive Visual Novel, however it feels at some key parts. Most importantly, the game's hook feels weak. At the very beginning of the game, you are greeted by far too much text explaining things about the game project. That can be put after the game. Once you start the game itself, it is far too much "telling not showing". There is too much expose, which I skipped. I would rather be hooked by visual story telling. The vibe of the game is thankfully very well done, which helped me understand what the theme was overall. Further on that note, even for people following the story, it would be easy to forget stuff. Something like a journal or a notebook or anything visual that the main character keeps with them would be very nice. Furthermore, the game wants me to feel bad for the main character, which it tries to do by telling us about the bad events that have happened to the character, but at least for me, that fails to do it. It's a very nice touch that as the character interacts with the world we learn more about them, however I would've also liked it if I could skip faster. If I feel like reading more, I will take my time, and if I don't feel interested by a certain part, I'd rather skip it whole to get to the gameplay faster.
Finally, gameplay is king, and while this game is extremely polished in almost all direction, In my experience this is where it is weakest. Simply walking around trying to find what to do is not very appealing, especially for a game jam.
To conclude, this is very promising and a great amount of effort has obviously been put into the game. Lean more in visual story telling, both in the game and outside the game, and I believe that this game could be great.

I am very happy to hear that, thank you!

Thank you!

That's a neat idea, I can definitely do that as the update.

Oh yea, I can definitely see the inspiration now that I think about it.

I really liked this game. Definitely my favorite so far.

I think that the concept is neat and I like that there was a detective game for this jam. The game could've really used a detective background music. Definitely needs to be fleshed out, especially near the end where I think there should be a clear box that snaps clues in place, similar to the case of the golden idol.

The concept feel great, however the game feels a bit unpolished. The sound track and the visuals are great. I think that it would've been nice to have multiple fire sources or to be able to influence the smoke through additional game objects. Wish some fleshing out, this could be a good "feels good" kinda game.

Art style was really good, I did not expect to see bunny girls and I'm glad that I did. The hitboxes on the robots could've been slightly bigger and the game feels like it would be better full screen (I played on web) and the limitation usage felt a bit on the weak side, but other than that, great game.

I am not quite sure what I just played.

I didn't find it very creative, but the execution was good and I enjoyed it. I really liked the UI visuals and the music was nice.

The music and the sound effects are really loud.

Cool concept, I'd need to see mor to make up my mind.

The music was well done, if loud. The UI could use some love and an options menu would've been great to adjust the volume of the music and the sound effects. Conceptually, I like the game, it reminds me of some flash games I've played. With some love and polish, this could turn out better.

Haha, thank you.

I enjoyed the game. I think that an options menu to adjust the sound would've been nice. The music does not reset when the game start over, but that's fine. I think that the souls combining by themselves when close to each other could've been better. Overall tho, I like the game, fun concept. A slash rather than a click to attack the enemies could be potentially more fun.

As the game lacks tutorial, I think that you should put exactly how and what to do to progress. Additionally, an options menu to adjust the sound would be neat.

Game is great. I think that it lacks purpose, as I did not find an end in sight, but I decided to set a really high score (25k) to have people look forward to beating it. Would be nice to be able to hold down the mouse button, as clicking eventually gets pretty tiring.

The game art and music are great, however I think that controls in the description would've been nice. I could not figure out what to do in the second room. I played the web version.

I have achieved world extinction through capitalism. I had fun. The concept can be expanded upon, but it's a neat game.

As a puzzle game enjoyer, I liked this one. In terms of QoL, it can be better with some very small touches:
-I would like it if the button tutorial stayed up. I confused the 2 buttons rather often, wanting to break a block but shooting instead.
-If you implement the feature above, you can keep the levels as they are on a fail, and allow the player to make adjustments.
-Markers. Allow the player to mark blocks. I often forget which block I wanted to shoot at.
Otherwise, great job. I got stuck at the checkers level, which I understand is the last level. It feels like it might be possible, but it's too much guesswork for me.

I like the game conceptually and I personally like the sliding, but it feels a bit slow, and once you're in the lava, it feels pretty hard to get out of it. An HP bar above you and and the enemy would be great.

You are indeed correct, nice catch. I didn't think about testing pausing after the game has been beaten. This bug also occurs during the game over, as they are the same scene. It is an easy fix, and I will see to it. Thank you, glad you enjoyed the game!

Glad you enjoyed that mechanic and the game and grats on the score!

Grats on your highscore, glad you liked the theme and the game :).

I originally had the player at that speed, but it was hard to get from one corner to the other in a reasoable time, so then I upped the speed, but that lost precision, so I decided to make it so that you slow down when shooting. The idea came from similar games like touhou and bullet heaven. Glad that you found the game fun. :)

True, I forgot to mention space bar to shoot in the description. I will also keep updating the game and a short pop up with the controls is first on my list. Glad you liked the game.

Thank you, I'm glad you liked that idea. Thanks for playing and grats on the high score :)

Feel free to leave your feedback, ideas, bug reports and highscores here :)
My highscore is 42000.

Not my style of game and it felt a bit hard to learn, but I really like the visuals and the music.

I really like the spiffing brit references. Great game. 

Great theme interpretation and great game. I really wish that there was audio to go along with the puzzle solving, but other than that, I liked it.

I believe this was unintentional, however the game has many small imperfections, which on a meta level, fits the theme of this jam perfectly. The movement, the narration being cut off and there being no clear "goal" other than to get the endings made for a goofy mess that made me smile. I had a good time.

Music was amazing and the sound effects were funny. I was unable to shoot, and it seems like I was unable to find how to progress. Funny game tho, just needs polishing.

Amazing game. Everything is great. Visuals and Gameplay were great, I enjoyed my time a lot as I like this game genre.
I only dock a point from innovation and audio because there wasn't anything new per say, just really good execution, and there being no music when the character was speaking broke the immersion a bit. Similar to Nova Drift, but that made me like it more.

This game is fantastic for such a short game jam. I pretty much liked everything and enjoyed my time with it.
I will instead focus this review on the few things that could be better:

-Audio starting at 100 is not a good idea for web games.
-As pointed out in other comments, enemies can still act and attack you while you read the tutorial popups.
-The music is great, however the tune felt a bit too repetitive.

Other than that, lovely idea and execution. I can see this one potentially winning. Great job!

Game was great. I liked the visual and the sound was really nice. I wish that the slider gave me a bit more control over the music and the sound effects, but it does good enough job. I also would've liked if the combat control where in a different grid, was a bit hard to recognize which button is which.