Dememorize

Loved this very much! Can i ask, what engines did you use to mix pixel art and 3D?

My review will have a lot of SPOILERS, so finish the game first:




Not a spoiler free review.

Not a spoiler free review.

Not a spoiler free review.

This is a really, really good game.

The game really handles story-telling well, especially of how it builds up the atmosphere, and the visible life on the characters and the atmosphere;

The way the game gives information about the characters to the player is handled excellently!

The game makes believable characters by giving slight information about their hobbies, backstory, and how they feel without information overload and with their mystery still in tact.

The game doesn't care if they "please" people which made the game more humble like a literal person, but I feel like after Day/Night 1, and especially Twilight; the game switches to a new path and becomes desperate and tries really hard to please you by having a cliche plot twist in the end. To be honest, I didn't really liked the game's ending; maybe it's because I'm salty and I don't like sad endings like that.

It makes me feel like I'm in an alternate timeline where the game chose ending B since it really does seem like "Fate's bad ending" for me.

If I could describe the game's ending A it would probably be like this;

• N9 would be a real deadly disease with different side effects for people.

• The Ward would be a huge, functioning, and guarded location.
• The doctors would be working on a cure for N9.
• No more "doctors making clones of Tess till the being awakens, and that disappointing, 'you are a bug in the system'".
• Tess and the player are the same person
  

• Owen and Tess save Cecily, who is an actual different patient in the ward.

It doesn't really matter if you implement those or not, but I did play this game near May or April and instantly stopped at Night 1 to take months of break, then continued and finished the entire game last week. But I swear, Day 1 really built up the story just to have it fall in the bottomless pit in Twilight.

Though, I am content with the game's ending and I am okay if it stays like that. I was kinda expecting this game to be like The Promised Neverland during and after my 1st session of game.

But if there's anything the game can improve on it's to;

Make the abstract writings readable without the stereotypical writing like Cecily's letter, instead of random words appearing.

(The writings could be vague if you want, as long as they each contain backstory, or lore, or foreshadowing.)

This game may be just something for a game jam, but for a game jam entry; this game is really good, this game seems to have life in it. The game makes me as well wonder what's the outside of the Ward if it was real and how the people would be doing in the Ward, as if it seems comprehensible enough. If this game is given more care, this could stand alone as a game.

EDIT: (also if you're planning to make this more polished or a game, maybe more replay ability would help; at this point, this post is basically a wishlist for a game)

heyy really awesome game - enjoyed it so much!!! SUCH A GOOD STORYLINE WOW!!!!!!

the 'jump' button is super handy when it comes to going back where i left off without having to start from the beginning again.

i got a little stuck with night 2 as i believed i had completed all the 'tasks' or explored all the things i needed to, however nothing has happened beyond the investigation of cecily's report... i went back to tess's room but found no way to carry on to day 3... sorry for being so vague, dont want to spoil anything... but am i missing something?

This was a very cool experience. Good, spooky atmosphere and an intriguing story (which I'm still trying to piece together). 

I did have couple issues while playing, though. Hit one hang during my first appointment with Dr. Cooper (right after he asked for my name), but just restarted the chapter. The bigger issue I had was that vertical navigation (e.g. going up/down stairs) was really clunky and slow, which made navigating certain rooms quite annoying.

Movement speed was also a bit slow, but you happen to be able to double-dip on the movement keys (e.g. left arrow + A) to move faster, which made it better.

Overall, a bit rough around the edges, but I really enjoyed it all the same!

I like how the dialogue window lerps between characters :)

Honest question, but how often did you playtest the game? Including all the previous issues that people have mentioned (Well, including me) the game also managed to crash on night 3.

How did any of these get missed? You might want to replay your game in case you find any additional bug that no one else has spotted yet.

!!Spoiler warning!!
That was so good and left so many questions, like was the latter part all an N9 induced hallucination? Who were you the whole time if you weren't the MC, were you the same person and just different parts of the brain? 
were they clones????

If you have any hints to what this all meant that would be pretty cool, but if you dont wanna give any that's also cool, really good game though like this was really interesting. 

A bug. Gotten stuck here. No way to continue the speech bubble thing.

Well, rather intruiging. Sadly I got stuck in Night 2 pushing into that conversation between Owen and the Doctor. At the and I found myself facing down and unable to move (I could still rotate, what you see on the screenshot is a door). Maybe I triggered the scene from a wrong location?

Edit: After watching the walkthrough below I'm rather sure the sequence was triggered to early. I think I've checked the closed door one stairway below - which was locked as in night 1, and when I went back from the the dialoge was triggered below me.

(Another minor bug was: I found the bunny before talking to Dr. Gray. So he was still standing there at Night 1 and I could have the bunny related dialog wiht him.) 

I have gotten myself stuck by climbing on this box and descending into this white box.

It is in the "---" room in "Night 1", the one you get into from the same hub where the "Operation Room", "Control Room", and Gray's room are.

In the screenshot I am looking at the entrance and a physics paper.

Good atmosphere and plot. This game deserve more content.

Looks pretty interesting so far, the black & white graphics really makes it look more unsettling.

Tho, I managed to glitch somewhat and walk on air by going onto he night table next to the bed and then walk diagonally out. I could literally stand on the large white table in the middle of the room.

It's nothing game-breaking, but thought I'd atleast report that.

Edit: I have another problem with the game, I played the web version right on itch.io and there's nowhere on the page or ingame that actually explain anything. I kinda guessed that z and space are used to interact with ppl, but other than that it'd be gr8 to have some sort of explanation for the controls, nothing too fancy.

The story was extremely interesting and at times I felt like I almost had the full story just for the game to throw a curve ball at me. Great job. I didn't get to the end of the game because I got hard locked when I talked to a person near the end. Other then that, great game.

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