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Tommy is the Shapeshifter
Tommy is the Shapeshifter
By ashdnazg
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Humor | 3 | 4.41 | | |
| Audio | 51 | 3.80 | | |
| Fun | 101 | 3.74 | | |
| Mood | 115 | 3.60 | | |
| Theme | 327 | 3.57 | | |
| Innovation | 420 | 3.17 | | |
| Overall | 436 | 3.25 | | |
| Graphics | 586 | 2.78 | | |
| Coolness | 1248 | 47 | | |
Comments
2016-04-18 09:16
This is great! Loads of hilarious dialogue, some nice surprises. Managed to find all of the endings :D
I think my main feedback is that some of the best jokes are buried pretty deeply in the dialogue trees; this adds to their effectiveness, of course, but it means that lots of folks will miss them, which is a shame.
The writing is solid. Some delightful jokes, good character differentiation. There isn't a lot of depth or character investment/development, but what can you expect, it's a compo game :D
Pretty good voice work, the different characters have nicely distinct (and most importantly, internally consistent) sounds. Took me a moment to understand everyone, but this didn't impede my enjoyment of the game. Audio came out clean. Subtitles were a fantastic touch, and really helped replayability (skipping dialogue I've heard before after scanning the text - yes please).
Music was pleasant and effective, avoided becoming annoying despite all the time I spent listening to it (I played the game N+2 times, where N is number of endings).
Despite the "small" total amount of total audio dialogue, it felt like there was a lot to see/hear/explore. I think this game does a better job of accomplishing the feeling of "impossible amounts of audio content" than MInfo, given how the pieces are parceled out to the player.
On a technical level the code is remarkably clean, and I encountered no bugs at all.
Success! Onwards and upwards!
2016-04-19 15:17
Great graphics! Loved it tremendously!
The dialogue's hilariously voiced and generally a very pleasant dark camp thing. Main complaint is just that the dialogue implies a lot of things that don't pan out. At one point in the "Is tommy a shapeshifter?" line, it seems like there's a consensus, at least with bobby, that tommy is a shapeshifter, and this doesn't translate to his ultimate answer. It would've been much more fun to find these hidden flags in the conversation I feel, and get a more organic-feeling argument going.
Still, had a very good time, especially being able to convince everyone that they're the shapeshifter after all. Nice work.
Bobby saves the day. The dialogue is funny but that's just coz you are (talking) weird :D
On its own, the game mechanics are a bit overly simplistic and fast become a grind, but thankfully the game is about as long as you need to finish it enjoyably.
Despite much longer hokoaudio in your previous game, I think it was a lot more interesting. Not every game can be groundbreaking though, can it?
-gajop
esayitch
2016-04-20 14:52
Hilarious story and character, and the voice acting made it all the more funny xD
Good job, behatzlaha!
euske
2016-04-20 15:55
I can see the idea of psychological trick is a sort of your thing (this game + previous game). Liked it a lot.
rnlf
2016-04-20 18:20
Very cool idea! I really enjoyed the writing and the voice acting a lot. I didn't read that there were five endings before I started and suspected in the end it turned out that "you" are the shapeshifter. And that was also the first ending that I found :-)
The drawing style might be a bit low-fi, but it totally underscores the hilarious dialogs.
I had a lot of fun :D
Nice sense of humour throughout and the daft voice overs add to it. The drawings are a little rough but Tommy made me laugh. Good job overall, I enjoyed my time here.
lereveur
2016-05-03 20:46
I was prepared to play this game speedy, and to be bored. I was totally wrong : it was fun, hilarious, and the different ways to get the five endings are pretty clever, so, very good job, I like to be surprised in that way ! :)
This was a pretty refreshing and unique entry. Very funny voice acting and game in general, the art style fit the game I think. And I got all 5 endings.
acuity
2016-05-09 19:39
YES the voice acting!!!!
Playing this gave me a smile and quite a few chuckles. Loved the aesthetic and the voice acting was hilarious. I enjoyed playing through multiple times to get to hear all the dialogue. And there was an impressive amount of it. Great job!
haveric
2016-05-09 22:26
this game legitimately made me laugh. it was well written and voice acted. the graphics were awesomebad. fantastic job.
i love the voices, and I think the potato quality really fits the whole thing together.I wish there was more mouse interactivity, but thats just me :)
Lol, wonderful dialog :)
ashdnazg
2016-05-10 01:56
@all: Thanks! glad you've liked it :)