aplovestudio 2024-04-16 00:56
look at my lawyer dawg i'm going to jail 💀
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Jim Brimstone: Devil Advocate
By aplovestudio
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 292 | 3.83 | 23 | |
| Fun | 507 | 3.52 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 1013 | 2.87 | 22 | |
| Theme | 646 | 3.59 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 64 | 4.52 | 23 | |
| Audio | 461 | 3.42 | 23 | |
| Humor | 65 | 4.14 | 23 | |
| Mood | 88 | 4.16 | 23 |
look at my lawyer dawg i'm going to jail 💀
Alright, this was worth the wait! After seeing your progress post a few days ago, I knew I had to follow your account and play this game when you finished.
The writing was great, and the level of difficulty was right in the sweet spot - most of the questions were simple to answer if you were paying attention, but a few I had to think about.
An area of improvement I would give is that this was a text-heavy game, but the text boxes were being populated/updated in real time as each letter arrived. This causes a jarring visual effect when the words wrap to the next line. I found myself double-tapping the space bar to make the text show up all at once to avoid that, which caused me to miss the judge's question a handful of times. (Being able to see the question he asked at the bottom of the screen when you were picking your answer may have helped).
Your entry is one of a very few I've seen so far to use a really minimal color palette to a great effect. The artwork was minimalist, but still detailed in the faces, which is where my attention was mostly drawn to.
Oh, and I can't end my review without mentioning the amazing double-entendre of demon summon/jury summons. Remarkable work!
Great art!
I love the staging of your game, camera movement and animation are amazing !
Great game, loved the references! I liked the subtle parallax when switching between characters and how everything else being grayscale highlighted Jim. I found the text hard to read as it was appearing on screen.
That's quite a cool art style and overall look & feel of the game. Regarding the humor in the story - that's discussable, but I do like it more than no, however there is so little gameplay sadly :(
Anyway good result, mate!
haha this is super charming! really funny dialog options, love all the references. great art as always, nice work :)
I laughed at the ending where you successfully defend all defendants :laughing:
Great art and sounds, though the tapping of the keyboard started to get slightly annoying after a while. Very nice bit of writing, I liked the references and the dialogues overall.
I had two minor issues (nitpicks) with it - first, sometimes the successful responses were just a tiny bit too "cliché" (spoiler):
!> Like Tripping and falling onto a knife.
Second, even when paying attention to the dialogue, some of the responses were too much of a guesswork (spoiler):
!> I had no way of knowing (I think) that the correct bullet was #2.
I have no doubt that both could be solved with a bit more time to come up with something else.
Also, apart from Jim Brimstone being a devil, I don't see much connection to the theme.
All in all, those are all really minor things. I actually spent a lot more time playing than I thought I would, it was really fun. Great job!
The court summons thing is clever, and the art is very nice and simplistic. Only real nitpick is that I wasn't much of a fan of the 'current' references.
Fun game! Good art and and felt cohesive and bug free. Story was good too. I would have liked more game in the gameplay, but visual novel type things usually aren't my cup of tea anyway so I'm glad to say I enjoyed this
I thought it was a rather fun little game! Sure, as some others have said, some answers were kind of cliché, but to me it felt like the people making the game KNEW they were being corny, and did it anyway. Kinda like when you see a movie and it's so bad that it wraps around again to being good, like Snakes on a Plane.
Artwork was awesome, I really dig the subtle palette as well as the other lawyer looking progressively more disheveled after dealing with your nonsense.
My only real complaint is the text boxes changing size with the text as it came onto the screen for the dialogue. I'm not sure what engine you used, but I'm sure there's probably a way to have a fixed size text box and just have the text appear inside of that, possibly with the use of substrings, for instance. Other than that, though, I thought it was a solid entry and it had me chuckle a few times. Great job!
This was great fun. Love the quips from Jim Brimstone.
Probably not intentional but found some humor in getting a guilty verdict even when I "won" the roulette at the end of case 2 multiple times. Oh well. Everything up to that point worked fine. Thank you for sharing!
I was following this during the jam, excited to give it a try! Glad this popped up for me. Love the art. There was something a little funky to me personally about the rate of the text, but that could just be my particular reading speed. I also found the answers to be a little too easy. It would be neat if if tied up somehow at the verdict, rather than the same question BUT that seems like a huge ask in 72 hours. I had a great time running through this though, great job!
Very nice art and I really loved the typing sound effect for the text. Bit of a guessing game sometimes but it was enjoyable. Well done!
Haha, that was pretty cool. *** Spoiler *** I like how she was the client at the end. Great idea. Great take on the theme. Good job.