To any potential players of this game, it’s well worth the 3 bucks for the full thing, and even the light free version is a worthwhile game on its own.
To the developers, I have a couple nitpicks that you might want to keep in mind for future games:
-Most of the voice acting, especially Ygg’s, was very stilted and awkward. (The lizard dad did great.) It seemed very much like the VAs were given the lines but weren’t familiar with the context in the game that they’re in. Please, make the full game with the dialogue written out, have your actors play the game and record the vocals as they go. This will give them much more to work with, and is significantly easier than trying to tell tone and context to an actor who isn’t familiar with the core material.
-While the artwork is gorgeous, I noticed a difficulty with integrating the interactable items with the background, mainly, that there wasn’t any visual cues to guide the player to not pressing everything in the background. I imagine this limits Oana too, because it makes every bit of personality and ambiance you add a risk, making beauty and playability opposed to each other. There are a few ways to get around that, you can add an icon as I believe Fran Bow and Broken Age have that when selected makes the interactable items flash or display an image, or you can try to make the design of interactable objects stand out, with thicker lines or sharper quality or something like that.
-Allow for some way to bypass the games that require precision and agility (such as the ball and cans game). This kind of game - point and click adventures - really appeals to people who enjoy puzzles but don’t enjoy the precision and agility type of gameplay, people with shaky hands (like me) and having that kind of game required to proceed in the story might drive some off. No need to just add a skip button or make it super easy, but having an alternative way around the problem that is more accessible to the less dexterous would be good. Maybe have the option to choose if you want to play the ball n can game or the rat has another game that is more puzzley, but you can only play one. Idk, that’s just off the top of my head.
Overall, this is a very good game! Let me know if you guys need anyone else on your team, as you might be able to tell by my writing this long review, I’m very passionate about this genre and would love to work in it myself.
Developer Response
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