Ginger's Letter to Santa

the game is a very cute treat <3 ayyy, back to Capricorn xD don't be afraid to use your items in battle, you need them, LOL

IT'S MORE VVTZ!!! A ~3 hour little christmas themed RPG game made for fans of VVTZ where you play as a slimy cookie, a member of the lamb species, and the soup dwarf on a quest to bypass the privatization induced inefficiencies of the postal system and talk to christmas's manager heavy build customization, gameplay mechanics you only start to understand 2/3 through the game, funny dialogue, a world full of weirdos, new renditions of VVTZ music by Elektrobear, CHAINSAWS, this game has everything the VVTZ fan requires in their holiday season diet and i love it

Really enjoying it so far, the humour is exactly what you'd expect if you played the first VVTZ game, the combat is quick paced and everything is just very charming. I'm leaving a review before I finish because this game deserves the boost it will get from an early good review! Will updated later. You should buy it!!

Code provided by the developer for content creation! My video can be found here: https://youtu.be/h_TrnRhIqbo **I haven't played Virgo Versus the Zodiac yet, so my review is based on no prior information from that.** Ginger's Letter to Santa is a short-ish (~3-4 hour) RPG adventure all about Ginger trying to deliver a letter to Santa! Because let this cookie COOK! You'll team up with a couple unlikely allies on your way to getting to Santa's house, and also have to deal with the Zodiacs trying to stop you! Well, some of them are. Combat plays out in a turn-based matter. What skills you'll have available to you depend on what equipment you have on, and everyone can wear everything, so long as they have the slots for it! All of your attributes are there, but are named differently. What some of them do? I never really figured those out by the time I beat the game. Destiny is your Health, and Purity is a sort of MP thing. Counterattacks turn out to be quite good... especially if you combine them with confusion on the enemy! However, counterattacking requires purity, so you'll want to make sure you do actions to maintain it. Or don't, and just spam out different abilities until things fall over. Status effects in general are... interesting? Some give you bonus abilities to use, some help in... some way? Or you can just throw a bunch of Snowballs. I did that a few times too. By the end of the game, I was sort of just over combat. Things felt like they were hitting too hard, I was constantly just trying to find the nearest healing spot (either a cauldron or a stove or something), and just ready to be done. The story is cute, though I got very confused near the end on just... where to go? I mean, I eventually wandered onto it, but then there was something in a later area that was just sort of... there? And I didn't get it. I'm guessing some of these things would make a lot more sense if I'd played VVTZ, and it's definitely on my list to play sometime. But, even without playing it, you can get a sweet little adventure, though you might face some of the same confusions I did.

The developer of this game posts negative reviews on their social media and makes fun of them. In my opinion, this is rude and unethical, an immaturity that drives away players and prevents the team from receiving constructive criticism. [b]What did DEV do when I reported this on the Steam forum? [/b] -They deleted my thread, -distorted what I said on Blue Sky and said I was a "heartless Steam nutcase". Even so, I continued to speak politely in a new attempt at dialogue, published the deleted posts on they comment, as proof of what I really said and...surprise! i was blocked again. I realized that the developers are unprofessional when it comes to criticism, bordering on immature, and they try to subvert things said with lies, you can check the negatives reviews on Keylocker and they social media, (but they didn't expect me to have saved my deleted posts :) ). Well, Moonana, I don't want any more contact with you now,[b] just avoid this bad developer[/b], because as I said, you will be their next clowns if they don't like your opinion. ----------------------------- [b]The game itself [/b]- I'm not a jerk to deny the artistic effort, and much less vindictive to give a negative review, because in this game you find elements of a traditional RPG, and in a way it's an addendum for those who played Virgo, the music is always exciting, so if you're a fan of the original work, buy it, it's very good. However, I won't do the same with the next projects, because I believe there was a lack of respect and there's a long way for this dev to learn about criticism. Its not about smashing a ant for pleasure, its just consumer pratice of feedback.

this is straight up just a hard mode DLC for VVTZ, a super short side campaign (3 major areas, 2, maybe 3 bosses only) with a similar but different combat system that tests the player HARD with encounters significantly more challenging than anything in the main game, while still not feeling unfair or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The final boss in particular is genuinely rock solid in its mechanics even if you look past the central conceit of it. soundtrack is crazy good, it's half remixed VVTZ tracks to sound even better and half originals that all crack my top 10 from main game, so that's yet another highlight. jokes are good as always as well and maybe slightly better than main game because it's 100% comedy-focused. the only negative i have is that the two puzzles are kinda dubious, the first having unexpected requirements to complete even if you think you have the right sequence, and the second requiring maybe just a little too much creative meta-style thinking from the player to solve, but other than that, game is great and well worth the price. If this is Moonana's last game it'll be a gigantic travesty to lose arguably the most mercurial indie RPG devs in the industry right now. and lastly, idk if this was supposed to happen, but sullyvan somehow became a destroyer of worlds in my game, his Versatility stat when i built him for full Mutable was like 80 or some ludicrous ♥♥♥♥ like that, higher than all 3 of Ginger's stats combined, to the point where all i had to do in every fight was put up Purity Guard on him and watch as any enemy that barely touched him immediately just died, without fail like they were running full tilt into a brick wall and keeling over. 10/10 would salarylamb again

Very cute game, as a VVTZ enjoyer this is the best Christmas present :D

A nice, cute, little game, but still quite challenging if you're not experienced with RPGs in this format. The humour is good, and it works well as a standalone game since there aren't too many references to the events of Virgo Versus the Zodiac, so I would say it's a good game to introduce new players to Moonana games. It's also made me consider giving Osteoblasts another try (I tried the demo a few years ago but couldn't get very far, but maybe now I have more knowledge on what to do in RPGs that don't have timing-based mechanics to help you avoid taking more damage like Virgo and Keylocker do).

10/10 would love to hear the "UWAHHHH" sound again every party member death

Very cute little 3-hour RPG! The spritework is delightful, the writing is charming a funny, the music honestly [i]slaps![/i] There are a few references to Moonana's other game, Virgo Versus the Zodiac - I haven't played that yet, so those went over my head, but the writing was still very enjoyable without catching them. I will say (and usually I have the opposite issue with game like this) that the text speed for the combat is a little too quick. It's difficult to see what damage types are being exchanged. That said, it doesn't matter too-too much; you shouldn't have too much trouble with any particular combat still, and it keeps the game moving quickly, so there's an upside too. Cute little one-evening game - was a real nice way to play through Christmas afternoon!