Home: A Quarantine Story

[h1]#tinygamereview[/h1] [code] The soul of a visual novel, trapped in and RPGMaker body, that dreamt of becoming a novella [/code] 🟨 [b]MISMATCHED[/b] 🟨 [hr][/hr] 🎮 🟥[b]Gameplay:[/b] nothing to really speak of; the actual [i]"gameplay"[/i] is like any RPGMaker-esque, and it didn't seem to lean in to being "point-and-click" (I instinctively played it with a controller because of how it looks). Most of the (sadly-inconsequential, but interesting nevertheless) background is told through inspecting random objects and environmental details in the way that, for example, switching between interaction cursors was [i]made for[/i], but are absent from, here. 📖 🟩[b]Narrative:[/b] its strongest point, hampered by what feels like a mismatched medium. A "true" point-and-click with snappier textboxes (and some edits for length) could have worked better; a visual novel, even moreso. Heck, I'd read this as a [i]novella[/i]. 🔊 🟧[b]Audio:[/b] vibey instrumentals, but not memorable 🖼️ 🟨[b]Visuals:[/b] felt like the setting/era, aesthetic, and visual style were less-than-coherent; dialogue fit the setting, backgrounds and sprites (which [i]I[/i] thought were independently-[i]gorgeous[/i]) looked like a mishmash of turn-of-the-20th-century parochial attire, visual [i]style[/i] was like something out of the late 1990s (which I [i]love[/i]). [hr][/hr] [h1]#memorycard[/h1] [b]What stood out:[/b] 📌Family dynamics that are equally familiar [i]and[/i] weird 📌Oddly-matched elements made it feel like a fevre dream [b]Who it's for:[/b] 🎁Visual novel enthusiasts who just want a visual novel that uses a different engine for a change? 🎁Anybody who wants to look back and relate to the awkward hostilities of the early COVID-times, then reflect on how even [i]that[/i] seems better than nowadays 🎁Lovers of whatever you call that late-90s pre-rendered-everything aesthetic [hr][/hr] [h1][b]🤓Curator: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46000099/]Brickroad Amusements[/url][/b][/h1]