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The sad part of being early to games that have puzzles and multiple endings is not being able to rely on other people to figure out how to get other endings.
I liked it! There were some performance issues where certain things would have trouble loading (the first video froze the game on my laptop, and putting something in wrong for the image search also meant I had to close the game and reload). But since it's a jam game, I'm willing to let that go.
The Yume Nikki inspirations were clear. I did like the idea of a meta style Yume Nikki with a game within a game, especially with the original's focus on dreams.
SPOILERS here but I managed to get the one ending, but not the other. My initial guess is that getting the second ending has something to do with the Retribution post on the ingame forum and the attachment linked. I just couldn't figure out how to actually download it. Although, I could be completely off track, and getting the second ending has to do with something completely different. It's getting late though, and I'm not the best at these sorta things, so I'm willing to let someone else figure out the branches.
But I enjoyed it! I liked the use of image editing as a puzzle element. I haven't seen that a lot with meta style games.
Thank you for the review! Yeah I figured there would be some performance problems with how plugin heavy the game is 😣 thank you for your persistance regardless! The retribution post was actually linked to an ending I didn't have enough time to implement :'( So you cant download the attachement (yet. Planning to add this once the judging period is over) The other endings is related to file 1.pist
This game was so good (as expected from Hatoge <3). There were some performance problems and some bugs here and there, but overall, it was worth it. I'm completely lost how to get the other ending at the moment... I feel like there are things I'm missing. I've been trying to solve the .pst file but can't quite crack it yet
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What can I say about this game? It's pretty good. However, it ends in the wrong time. What exactly happened to Kana, I can't understood. Maybe I didn't read too much into the messages and forum? Who is the man in the jester suit, why does the ending depend on which method you open the door, and why does Kana appear as a demon/angel in the endings?
My theory is that the Jester is the personification of Kana as an outcast among the others.
In the good ending, Kana's boyfriend didn't know what was happening to her at school and just didn't have time to do anything about it, so she doesn't blame him.
In the bad ending, her boyfriend saw everything but didn't want to do anything about it for fear of being an outcast himself. That's why Kana is mad at him.
I can't help but feel that I've already started to make progress, but the narrative stops at the most interesting point.
Gameplay: 7/10
Concept: 10/10
Graphics: +atmosphere/10
Story: 5/10
In total: 7/10
p.s. I wrote the review with the help of a translator, so some words may be wrong
I just played the game, and tbh I still don't really understand the story qwq but here's what I've put together:
WARNING! SPOILERS!!!
It appears that a person named "Piero" did something terrible to Kana. But what I don't understand, is if Piero and Shin are the same person. The messages made me assume that Piero and is the person that Shin didn't want to be friends with anymore, cause Shin said he "knows" what Piero did to her. But also, the "picture" of Shin looks like Piero's sprite? So my thought process is..
If Piero and Shin are the same person, then he was someone who "fell in love" with Kana through her blog + messaging her. It became parasocial and he murdered her (maybe in the closet seen in that one picture?)
If they arent the same person, then I have no idea TvT