hunter-van-brocklin 2023-10-03 00:48
loooved the voice acting here, and the unique form of writing/storytelling
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → The Ones You Keep
By hugimugi7, Cal Clarke, LangiT and GoBigRedFan
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 83 | 4.15 | 35 | |
| Fun | 397 | 3.64 | 34 | |
| Innovation | 34 | 4.32 | 34 | |
| Theme | 141 | 4.27 | 35 | |
| Graphics | 95 | 4.42 | 35 | |
| Audio | 4 | 4.54 | 35 | |
| Humor | 88 | 4.01 | 34 | |
| Mood | 86 | 4.16 | 35 |
loooved the voice acting here, and the unique form of writing/storytelling
loved the voices!
Interesting concept. Took me a minute to understand what I needed to do. I enjoyed the writing and story
this is frankly phenomenal. oozing with love and intent in every respect. love it so much
Great graphics and voice acting
Genuinely loved this sort of storytelling! Each character was so well-written and characterized, and the depth in terms of the ways people talk and react to your choices was... honestly surprising. Loved the little epilogue, and it works well with the theme, both in terms of gameplay and in terms of actual story and theming!
Wow! Excellent game entry. Intriguing gameplay and solid graphics, audio, theme. Well done!
Very nice blend between narration and gameplay. The game is also beautiful !
A very interesting idea. Loved the voices, maybe a bit too long but it's good enough.
Couldn't agree more with what everyone else already mentioned. You guys made a very interesting and complete game! I only want to mention that the RMB is actually the LMB for me. LMB and Scrolling is a bit hard :smile:
Amazing entry, great job! Voice acting is top notch, as other said, and I'm happy to see a narrative entry for this theme. Well done.
I had so many questions, like "what note? what happened? where? who?" and even though I got some answers, I feel like I was still left with more questions. Even though your decision to keep the mysterious atmosphere (or then I just didn't play long enough to actually get some answers) it may have made it even better. Great storytelling, great voice acting.
To be honest, I don't really know what to say. The initial idea sounds a bit heavy for a game jam. But the writing and the voice acting are brilliant. The humor is on point, and makes it enjoyable to listen to all the letters. If there was a hidden "truth" to discover, I didn't figure it out. Maybe my attention span is too short during game jams.
Phenomenal voice acting! Well, Marius's wise-guy accent was a bit hammy but aside from that, the characters all felt really believable and unique from each other. Great writing for sure. I enjoyed piecing together the events of the wedding and trying to decipher who did what. I gotta say, whoever wrote that letter is a damn coward. That is information you provide *before* the wedding, not during.
This had me engaged all the way through. Great work!
Loved the voices and the story behind it. The characters and letters were really interesting and funny at times. Great game!
Voice acting, writing, and art were all phenomenal! Well done! My nitpicking complaint is that I desperately wanted to fit the cheese wheel and the painting together haha they just really look like they should be able to fit together!! :smile:
I really like the storytelling background you made! wp!
good idea, good graphic, great audio, i love it!
really innovative take on the theme and amazing storytelling!
Nice small details about Tommy and Manny huh? I think Tommy and Manny will not get along well. One sounds like insane strong dwarf and the other is a whimpy weaboos. This game is good. I did have to left Tommmy behind :(. Lewis is kind of a friend who is a drug addict in the disguise of alcoholic.
wow amazing storytelling! each character was so unique. Love how you never showed the letter or who wrote it gonna keep me thinking about it for a while now.
The format reminds me of FMV games (without the video of course). Personally, as with FMV games it was a bit hard for me to sit through the monologues, so I found myself getting distracted, but I can see the format really appealing to someone else.
I appreciate that there were no right or wrong answers in the end, or if there were, this wasn't spelled out by the game. The open-endedness is very effective.
Great little game, the voice cast did a fantastic job. The most frustrating part was being unable to rotate the cheese only 45 degrees - it'd free up so much space! The ambiguity at the end works really well. Great attentions to detail with the characterization too - neat that a single tennis racquet is not a great gift for two people.
Wow... I have to say that the voice acting and the pixel art are stunning! I took some time to understando what i should do, but i enjoyed this game so much.
Nice take on the theme! You did a really good work!
Well written, and I'll echo what the person above me wrote and say I really liked the graphics too.
I thought it was a bit strange that you got letters or texts from people, yet it was voice acted and I couldn't see letters on screen. While the voice acting was great and really helped bring the characters to life, I would have liked to read along from the letter, rather than get subtitle popups. But I get that you may have run out of time to add extra graphics like that.
Very unique entry, well done!