Very good! Very nostalgic to see a Yume Nikke fan animation like this in this day and age. Takes me right back to 2009.

this is insane!

I've played this during the steam demofest. Couldn't yap my mouth them because you can't review demos, but I can yap right now:

Gameplay is basically that of classic Resident Evil, but with all the polish that modern gaming sensibilities can afford us (if you play with tank controls anyway). I can't even pinpoint what it is, but modern indie games that employ tank controls usually make it feel better than the tank control games of old, and this one is no different.
Other than movement, you can attack enemies with your baseball bat, and interact with enviromental objects, all standard fare for this type of game.

The twist on the formula comes from the camera itself being some sort of meta entity in the game world, which makes for some interesting puzzles, and raises some questions. The camera (in a way you, the person playing the game) is a form of deus ex machina interacting directly with the game world, the so called guardian angel. What that means is that you're controlling the main player character, and also behaving yourself as some omnipotent force independent from the player character that is tasked with helping her advance, solve puzzles, and even attacking enemies provided you have the special ammo for it.

Plot is pretty basic for the demo, but as I say in any piece of art, the execution is what matters. This one gets the job done, it introduces you to the setting, the mechanics, and the characters and doesn't waste your time. Not to go into too much detail, but Becky is lost in this derelict theater, and wants to find her friends. Not that she would have a choice in the matter anyhow, since each area she enters requires 2 people in order to leave. Unfortunatelly, there's monsters roaming about this spooky place, and you have to help her as her guardian angel. Ending is a cliffhanger, as is expected of a demo, an effective one I'd say since it caught me offguard. But alas, I won't spoil it.

Graphics are pretty good, I would compare them to a PS2-era game. But what I really wanna gush about as far as visuals go is the atmosphere, which is a 10 from me. As someone who loves horror and melancholy in art, and who feels it somehow becomes 100x more relatable when it's mixed with the cute anime aesthetics, a game like this will naturally grab my attention. The characters are all relatable and endearing in their own moe way, meaning you'll want to make sure they're safe. In contrast to that, the world they're in is unforgiving and opressive, surreal mazes populated with abstract monsters and architecture that makes little sense for our feeble human brain.

If you're like me and you love games like Yume Nikke, Milk Outside a Bag of Milk, Ib or anything in that general aesthetic ball park, definitelly keep an eye on this one.

And he looks GREAT up there

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