2021-10-05 20:26
Absolutely hilarious. Loved it!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Rocky Rhodes and the Cracked Case
By brainloaf-studio and joshedev
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 6 | 4.48 | 84 | |
| Fun | 14 | 4.42 | 84 | |
| Innovation | 26 | 4.29 | 84 | |
| Theme | 51 | 4.40 | 84 | |
| Graphics | 21 | 4.65 | 86 | |
| Audio | 4 | 4.60 | 84 | |
| Humor | 11 | 4.52 | 85 | |
| Mood | 16 | 4.50 | 85 |
Absolutely hilarious. Loved it!
5 stars you insane maniac ^^.
I had sooo much fun here!
So, what makes this a real pleasure is that you managed to surprise me a lot here and as a developer I know that it is more complicated to make ~7 different scenes than just one, what most of the others are doing! This is great stuff!
The zombie shooting was my favorite, that took me sooo by surprise ^^.
I...
I mean...
Wut? :dizzy_face:
I gave you straight 5s... please make more of this.
Cheers! [-LB](https://ldjam.com/users/the-lame-brain/)
Exept Barbara the design looks consistent...
@siorc Glad you enjoyed!
@mordrick Thank you so much! We're glad the differing scenes caught you by surprise - that was definitely the goal!
@the-lame-brain Your confusion means our job is complete. Thank you so much!
@chillertyp All will be revealed in-game... We encourage you to play it if you'd like to discover why!
really appreciate what piece. love the style of art and storyline.
Awesome! I love the art!
Nice work!
By far the best entry I have played so far. I would love to see more whacky scenarios, it is very entertaining going through these sudden changes!
Holy smokes! This was great, I was laughing out loud and couldn't believe my eyes! This was certainly unstable! I'm so glad I got to play this game, keep it up!
Awesome game! Didn't know what I was expecting going into it but it rocked!
The art is so good! The mood, sound, everything looks perfect! The best so far! Extremelly well polished. How did you guys managed to such a beautiful game in so few hours? I almost get insane doing mine.
I like humor, music, and visuals. And the voice acting is really good. I wish the game had some more real gameplay. The story is okay, but I wish it had more a interesting twist. Overall a well made jam game.
God ... this is a MASTERPIECE!
This is 100% the best game of jam
This was brilliant! Great voice acting, visuals and execution.
My God, at first I thought it was a whole black and white style detective game, ready to take on the hard work, until I met the man in the white suit, the whole game suddenly changed style!I thought there was a bug, and I have to say that the combination of several different styles of games is a really good example of an unstable theme!
Cool game made!Although the ending was a bit awkward and weird, the voice acting felt very professional and the graphics were great
Felt more than one game. Or a one big trip. Cool voice acting and unstable changes in gameplay. Quite a brain-cake to solve here;).
holy sh---- what the hell did I just play??? whut......what happened? I feel unstable...
Was a bit lost at the bread (maybe?) puzzle minigame, i don't know what just happened because everything happened so fast, but the quality of SFX and BGM is really good, art is also good and props to the designer to make such a variety of gameplay in 72 hours :laughing: although i'm not sure what i've just played. Overall a really great and unique game :thumbsup:
Was a bit lost at the bread (maybe?) puzzle minigame, i don't know what just happened because everything happened so fast, but the quality of SFX and BGM is really good, art is also good and props to the designer to make such a variety of gameplay in 72 hours :laughing: although i'm not sure what i've just played. Overall a really great and unique game :thumbsup:
I really love graphics, funny game, good job :)
Damn, what a game. The quality of the art, sound and voice action as well as the amount of variance are really impressive. Not seeing what's under your hand in the last part was a bit frustrating and the ending was really abrupt. For all I know, both of this could have been intentional though... I'm still not entirely sure how to react... But certainly great job!
Unstable Genre, love it.
@rainbowdied @jolu-studios @tiberiusuciu @arttu-halonen @slickramen @kitsunnet @deadsunset @sith @ardorugus @ghatazorg @leorid Thank you so much! We're so happy to hear you enjoyed your experience playing!
@jpatchz Bold of you to assume we didn't go insane! We're pretty sure we lost our minds, honestly. Thank you so much!
@jk5000 Thank you! We tried to go with some pretty crazy twists, but they can't land for everyone. Appreciate the feedback re: gameplay as well!
@guinytime We had joked about people thinking the first genre shift was a bug, so it's hilarious to hear that actually ended up being the case. Thank you so much for the feedback!
@achila-eranga-mohottige I'm not sure we even know the answer to that. Thanks for playing!
@bgdc @Junber We definitely could have made that final puzzle a bit clearer and cleaned up a few aspects of it, we agree! But having it be disorienting was definitely a goal too. Thank you so much for the feedback!
My god, I'm nearly left speechless. Your game was such a ride, it's my favourite one I've played so far out of the rest of the competition. I'm amazed by the full voice acting, and everything else you did in this short a time frame. 5/5!!!
Amazing game! I know it was in your screenshots, but the visual novel style scene took me by surprise! It was hilarious! Then you didn't fail to continue surprising me at each scene. The idea to randomly combine multiple video game genres for the "unstable" theme was genius! Truly innovative. The ending also helped to tie everything in for the theme. Besides the awesome gameplay, the graphics and the audio were also really well done! I like how you had different styles and qualities of art for each scene. This is definitely one of my favorite entries so far! Well done!
It was hilarious. Amazing job! You even added some pretty good voice over, I can't believe it! And the visials, especially of the noir part is outstanding. I love it, really
I honestly don't know what to do with bread puzzle :V
This is really cool! First of all, I would like to note the quality of voice acting. Have you called the actors there for the voice acting?!? :) The story in the game is very unstable, I give high marks.
This is very cool ! I really liked it). A very interesting idea, during the whole game there was one question "What's going on?" This is a very good project) And the graphics and animation and voice acting in it are simply amazing. I thought it would be a dramatic detective story but got a crazy game. Almost all the stages were pleasant to pass, except that the cars are poorly controlled. Now I want to continue this game.
wild concept, great execution
UM WHAT My first thought was how the hell did you make this in just a couple days My second thought was what the hell is going on?????????? But its so much fun, and I love the sense of humour! Almost full 5 stars apart from the theme though, I get that maybe the genre is unstable but it seems a bit abstract. Well freaking done.
@coelakan @eoshadows @zhanna @scalphamission Thank you so much! It means a lot to hear you enjoy the game, we're so glad!
@ryjcio Try to form a specific shape by assembling the bread pieces in the grid! (Hint: it's circular and has a hole in the middle)
@goddoesplaydice We're so glad to hear you enjoyed! Our amazing voice actors have links on the game's download page, and also have credits in-game if you wanna check them out!
@muros Thank you so much! We're glad to hear you had a good time. That's understandable, though the slightly unwieldy car was partially a design choice because we wanted the transition to feel all the more chaotic and uncontrollable (unstable, if you will). Appreciate the feedback!
@josher We're so glad to hear you enjoyed the game and the humor! For the theme our base idea was "unstable genre," so that's why the game's genre is constantly shifting. We also decided to throw in an extra "unstable" with the character's mindset during the final minigame. Thank you for playing and the feedback!
Very fun! Has a lot of interesting twists and turns that surprised me every time! Great audio and graphics overall!
Hahaha! This is incredible! Here I was expecting a cool film noir-style mystery, but it evolved into so much more! Funniest game I've played all jam, and to think you did all this in three days. This is amazing, the only part I really had trouble with was the car bit, though given the theme of the game it totally fits. Amazing work!
I think I'm feeling a bit unstable after playing this :D It was certainly unexpected and the voice acting was terrific, good job!
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O.................K............................. I have absolutely no idea what the heck just happened. This is the most confusing thing I have ever played, pretty unsurprising Brainloaf made it. I'm just going to give you 5 stars and run before I get caught in this.... thing.
(Fantastic job! Everything was top-notch quality, go get some gold trophies for making this game)
Fucking awesome, great artwork, music, voice acting, humor and everything.
Holy sheep on a motorcycle, the... the implications of the ending are... oh my goodness. I think I might have given the first straight score in this jam. Holy heck. I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't ready.
@staticbits @kwiper @kristoph Thank you so much for playing! It means a lot to hear that you enjoyed!
@flogames If you're feeling unstable after playing, then that's a success in our books. Thanks you!
@peace-of-cake-games Building a reputation for confusing games, are we? Honestly, we're glad to hear it! Thanks a ton for playing and for the kind words!
@der-mondhase Don't you mean holy *cat* on a motorcycle? (get it? because there's a cat on a motorcycle in the game. haha-) Thank you so much!
@brainloaf-studio After this and Sporelunk, plus Office Dating Sim and CONSUME, it's pretty easy to tell you guys specialize in out-of-the-box hilariously weird games. 😄 The ending to this was just so bizarre and really ended this unstable chaos right. Looking forward to hopefully seeing you at Ludum Dare's 20th Anniversary!
This was amazing. Great job.
*SLOW CLAP*,Great Job
I love the creativity on this one-it basically felt like I was watching a character go through an acid trip, which was only exasperated by the sudden ending. The dialogue is really well done and can be hilarious when it needs to be, and the voice acting is really done for a game jam. The sudden shifts in gameplay never caused any issues due to the controls specifically being done in a simple easy to understand way. This is definitely one of the more memorable games of the game jam.
Alcohol status: 23 minutes in, haven't drank a lot due to being confused as hell by this game, but what I have drank is starting to set in for this reviewing part, lol.
Played the jam version.
Thought I was gonna have to quit, the corner piece shapes for the "bread puzzle" were really unclear. Didn't think you could make me go "What??" at every genre change, but every single one was surprising and unsuspected. Ending was definitely odd, and the auto-closing gave one more final "what??" sensation of a sudden change. Really good work. Wish there was a way to skip through the opening noir text like there is in the visual novel aspect.
I appreciate the dedication to Rocky alone maintaining the noir style throughout, except at the end - really makes that last bit seem so heavy, along with the creepy voice and ambience.
Hardest part (besides the corner pieces of the bread puzzle (the other shapes were very clear! and very impressive since they're photos! also I liked the hand photo it was cool and creepy!)) was definitely the car level.
Voice acting was fantastic, although I'd say Barbara did better at the visual novel kawaii voice than the hardboiled femme fatale detective voice.
This game was perfect, and the perfect game to start my series of drunk ratings on lol. Gonna follow to see what over weird stuff you guys make in the future, good work!!
Oh, I also forgot to mention, it might not be a problem in postjam version but in jam version I found a strange bug: I took a screenshot during visual novel portion to share to my friend, and it minimized the game; upon re-opening the game, it was no longer full screen and had no way to become full screen. Had to restart because the car level was unplayable:
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What a wild ride (or rocky rhode) that was! Very impressed with how you made 5 completely different games in 3 days. I couldn't predict what was going to happen next. The art was probably the best I have seen this jam and the music was also top-tier. Also great voice acting! Gameplay was fun in all scenes, and I liked the story. Overall excellent work and I wish there was more! Great job!
What a rollercoaster, from start to finish. Absolutely loved it. I have nothing to critique at all.
@mrchippy @daniel-eduardo-martinez @chairshot-games @cinderblock Thank you so much! We're super glad you enjoyed the game and appreciate the kind words!
@peace-of-cake-games We'll definitely be taking part - see you there!
@proxy-games That's a very accurate description, looking back on how the game goes. Super glad you enjoyed and appreciate hearing your thoughts - thank you!
@papabirb Wow, thanks for sharing your thoughts on each part of the game - it's great to hear! We definitely could have made the bread puzzle a bit clearer (in the post-jam version there's an audio cue when you place a piece correctly), and adding a skip or fast-forward to the noir dialogue is a great idea. Sorry to hear you had a glitch with fullscreen, in the post-jam version we've added a way to toggle fullscreen with the F key but unfotunately missed that in the jam version. I'm a bit curious what would have happened if we'd caught you later into your endeavour, gotta wonder how that would have gone. Thanks a ton for the feedback and comment!
The best game I've played in LD49 so far! Brilliant.
My only complaint was the puzzle at the end. I had to play the post-jam version to be able to beat it.
Nice art design. I dont know, I dont much see what colerate with theme, sorry. Game is fun, but not as good as I hope so. Average audio, it not bad but not good, try harded next time. I like mood in this, game really I like it. Original game mechanics, I like your inovations.
One last note: I always write down honest review, because everybody need that, not just nice craps with some bullshit, but sometime I will appreciate very good games. So if this review insult you, but use it well :) Anyway every game is counting so :)
@gord10ahmet Thank you so much! I had a feeling the puzzle at the end might be too confusing without more cues, so I'm glad the post-jam version fixed that up. Appreciate the feedback!
@hadik Thank you for the feedback! If you're up to go into more detail, could we ask what you weren't a fan of with the audio? We definitely felt like we tried our hardest on the audio this time around after working with five voice actors, producing around six original music tracks, and implementing sfx as well. If you could give us your thoughts on what we could do better in this regard, please let us know! The theme we decided to go with was "unstable genre," so that's why the genre shifts around constantly and at random! We also threw in an extra reference to the theme with our character's "unstable" mindset at the end of the game. Thanks for playing!
@brainloaf-studio Glad to hear the postjam has audio cues for the bread and a fullscreen toggle, since those were the only two problems I encountered last night. As for the rest of my drunk rating endeavor, based on how last night went and how simple the gameplay is (never straying from clicks and WASD) I suspect I would have felt the same (maybe extra impacted by the genre changes) and played the same but had a much harder time sharing my thoughts in the review! Might not have been able to beat the car/bread sections had I been further into drunkifying myself.
@papabirb Oh boy, maybe it's a good thing you found the game early-on then! Hope the rest of your endevaour went well.
Hahah I had so much fun. Great job Devs. I hope you get as good grades as you deserve.
oh my god. i think this is the best game jam game i've ever played period. fantastic job across the board. i can't imagine a better take on the theme than this.
more than being enjoyable or fun, this game took me on a journey and changed the way i see the world. i think that's the most important thing art can do.
The voice acting is excellent, I really liked it! It was very funny!
What a ride! Love your interpretation of the theme, best game I've played so far this jam. Straight 5's in all categories, the mood and humor were there, the theme is implemented very nicely and the voice acting on top of the music is just really good! Perfect entry, wish I'd made it!
This was brilliant!!! Amazing concept, visuals, audio everything! The puzzle at end was impossible without knowing what to do, I thought you had to put the pieces like they were arranged in the previous cutscene, so I restarted and took screenshots. I was so convinced of this because the pieces were not constrained to the grid on the borders and outside of it. I could only solve after the hint you guys wrote here about it being circular. Anyways this was spectacular, wonderful job!
Great stuff all around! Superb visuals and voice acting! I would've loved a conclusion of the case other than "You win" though. A better explanation for the artifact, you know? But that's a minor detail compared to the whole thing, so fantastic job from all of you!
OK this was fantastic, what a trip! Only remark I'd have is, could you maybe add a changelog to this page to explain what the differences are in the postjam version? It's only fair to label that clearly on your page while the rating phase is still happening. It's a very polished and diverse experience, nice voice acting, tons of great art and different mechanics. Great work to the whole team!
@sli We're so glad to hear it! Thank you for playing!
@sakura-magika Wow, that is seriously the highest compliment we can recieve, thank you so much! It means so much to hear you enjoyed the game and that it affected you like that. Though we hope you don't correlate donuts with insane people from now on. Thank you for the immensely kind words!
@nikiprotiv We're super glad you enjoyed the voice work! We can't thank our voice actors enough for their talent and flexibility to work within the three-day timeframe. Thanks for playing!
@j-star That means so much to hear! We're so glad that everything landed. Thank you for playing!
@jackaljk Appreciate the feedback! We definitely agree that the final puzzle is the most confusing and least-straightforward, we would have liked to make it a bit more clear in the jam version if it wasn't for those pesky time constraints. We're glad it still worked out though, and especially that you enjoyed - thank you for playing!
@lazzor ...Did the artifact ever really exist? What is reality...? (Seriously though, thank you for playing! We're glad to hear you enjoyed!)
@pat-cleaver Super glad to hear you enjoyed, thank you for the kind words! That's a great point, we'll add a changelog to the page to clear that up. Appreciate the suggestion!
@brainloaf-studio thanks for taking the feedback! Yeah I guess my point is: I’m sure you did TONS of work in 72 hours, and with a change log it won’t leave any doubt about it.
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Jokes aside, easily the best entry I've ever seen on LD. I don't really understand any of what I just saw and need to emotionally recoup now.
Cooking Papa is life.
Any chance for html5 build?
@anchorlight Woah, that means so much to hear. If you're emotionally confused, then that means we've done our jobs. Thanks for playing! (Cooking Papa is indeed everything.)
@lerg We're planning to make the game playable in-browser soon, and mostly likely porting to Newgrounds!
hilarious and well crafted! really nice job!
Holy crap. This was absolutely amazing! I really didn't see any of this coming. And it's all so high quality too! It's a mastahpiece! 5/5
no need to write a long review, consider everything a 5 star. well the only thing i can say is that the driving controls were strange and they didnt feel right, but thats nothing compared to the whole game
@animawish Thank you so much! We're so glad you enjoyed!
@maxthedoom Woah, that means so much to hear! We're truly honored to have our game deemed a mastahpiece!
@skvader-418 That means a ton! I tried making the driving controls a bit unwieldy, but I think I might have gone a bit too far with that haha. Thank you for playing and for the comment!
Безумие творится здесь.
Amazing! When it switched to cooking papa I literally laughed out loud alone in my apartment, that doesn't happen so often :D
Very nice visuals and mood!!! Love it! Hope to see more like this.
Very pretty and very confusing. Just the way I like it. And I totally adore the kitty. It's cute AF.kitteh.png
I just wanted to tell you that I personally found your game to be the single best submission this jam overall. It was an incredible experience and something I've been sending to friends left and right. Congratulations on an amazing LD49 submission!
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Amazing. Loved the voice acting especially, but it was all great. Did I... kill a guy...???
@wheybags That's awesome to hear, thanks for playing! Cooking Papa appreciates you!
@xpoho Это действительно так. Спасибо за игру!
@itzemii Thank you!
@kuro Alley cat adores you too. Glad to hear the confusion resonated with you - thanks for playing!
@anchorlight Thank you so much! We just checked out your corresponding feed post and it's really an honor to be highlighted as your best overall for this jam, seriously. It means a ton to hear you enjoyed the game, and we appreciate you sending it around as well!
@knipsch Thank you, that means a lot to hear! And uh, best not to think about that too much...
Straight 5 stars!! One of the best games I've played in LD 49!
great game. i thought everything flowed well, the voice acting was great and the WTF moments were memorable. awesome game!
It was phenomenal! One of my favorite! It's the best game for "Fun". Thanks!
AMAZING game! I had so much fun playing it and can't think of anything negative to say. Awesome job!
Very good game, fits the theme perfectly XD love all the little minigames and the dialogue is great!
That game is crazy, lol! i enjoy it, very original concept, i can't put the relic back together
@dgspitzer @paulhocker @coolestdoggie @thefatgalaboo @cdunham We're so super glad to hear you enjoyed the game! Thank you so much for playing!
@dreamerflow Thank you! (Here's a hint: The shape is circular and has a hole in the middle...)
You made #6! Congratulations!
Big congrats!
@anchorlight @dgspitzer Thank you both so much! Your support during the jam and now means a ton. We seriously can't believe the results - major congrats to both of you as well for extremely rad entries! Hope to see you again soon for LD50!
absolutely insane how good this is, the ideas, the art, the music, the everything ! well done !