A Slit of Joy

there was certainly an attempt at a good Yume Nikki style game here, which i appreciate. just the fact that theres voice acting at all id say is impressive enough (although why exactly the one character sometimes has their voice lines reversed is beyond me). the main issue i have with this though is that its just too blatant with its themes for me to take it seriously at all. in conclusion though, i can definitely appreciate the effort put into a game like this as im a huge fan of the genre myself, although i cant really reccomend this game namely just because of the lack of nuance and very unclear routing for the final ending and Dev, if you plan on keeping up with game-making and other projects, i certainly encourage it though! you definitely had an idea here, just not the best execution the first try (first to my knowledge at least), which is hard to really blame EDIT: updating my review to make a couple changes. the omori theme bit was changed after release which i hadnt noticed till now, and i thought id mention now, the music for this game is actually pretty good. i still have not found the final ending yet but ill probably update again once i do, as there is one i just had trouble finding it. i want to give this game a genuine chance because i can tell there was some effort to this. anyways, after learning some things, i can at least say this is not a bad game, and if you are interested in a short hour or so rpgmaker game, id say this is something to consider. its not bad really

小体量的的游戏，唯一的实况在yt上面，卡关找不到东西可以看，无中文，无mod，全游全靠英语阅读理解，配音有点，草率，游戏方式有点类似omori，但画风和题材特别吸引我，游戏文件里有隐藏惊喜，不要对他抱有特别大的期待，毕竟体量和制作在这，和我一样被画风和题材吸引可以入

The game is great, so much so that I'm stuck on the very first puzzle :) I love these games! I hope to pass it soon. Great respect to the author for the work done!

太难了 总是找不到东西

it is a interesting game but still fun and i dont regret buying the game

I want to preface this review by saying that I'm not a negative person, nor do I usually find games "bad", usually I find them mediocre at best. I also want to say that I hold nothing against the dev for my criticism of this game, no matter how harsh it sounds, I can tell that an effort was made, and as a (likely) first project, I think the product does well. However, I cannot say that I enjoyed my time with this game either. The game was a confusing and buggy mess, with a strange story that barely gets me connected to any of the characters, and feels more like an unnecessary amount of angsy, edge, and "sadboi" tropes thrown at the protagonist, who's life is apparently a living hell but he was in denial for so long. There's also the problems around Aoi who (spoilers ahead) [spoiler] the game seems to try to paint as the "true antagonist", in both some ending dialouge, and the secret ending, (which may I add the game makes 0 attempt to tell you that the info is in the files), so her and Finn''s relationship is just confusing [/spoiler]. I have to mention that the problem isn't that the game is dark and depressing, in fact, most of my favorite RPG Maker games (OMORI, OFF, End Roll, Hello Charlotte, In Stars And Time etc), all revolve around dark themes, topics, and scenarios. But this game doesn't provide us with: A reason to care about the character, a reason that it's happening outside of "everyone secretly hates him", or enough time to digest what's going on, flesh out character relationships, explain anything, etc. Combine all this with a somewhat buggy game that's easy to accidentally break, and this was just something I didn't have fun with.

It isn't bad but it could've been a lot better. It isn't scary at all but the graphics are good 4,5/10

tengo mas dudas que respuestas, bastante edgy la verdad. Se podria haber profundizado muchoooo mas las historia pero bueno... banco los dibujos y el ost Ah y tambien si tenia gana alguna, ahora ya no quiero pegarme un corchazo gracias

Game can be completed in 30 mins, pretty fun but voice acting leaves much room for improvement. Strong 6/10

Маленькая и компактная игра в довольно старом стиле разработки игр и загадок. Несомненный плюс, это её 4 концовки, которые отличаются друг от друга. История персонажа хоть заезжанная, но до сих пор играется приятно. Графика и катсцены прикольно вставлены в геймплей и разбавляют(может даже награждают) за потраченное время на поиски и загадки. Если вы играли в такие проекты как omori и oneshot, или очень хотите поиграть, но сомневаитесь будут ли стоить такие игры вашего времени, то пройдите A Slit of Joy и вы сразу поймёте надо оно вам или нет. Как самостоятельный проект данную игру рекомендую к покупке за её крайне скромный ценник в 61 рублей.