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7/10/2025, 3:26:35 PM
>>57987144
Now for hacks I actually enjoyed.
Waves of Nostalgia
Cute world building, nice character writing, and AMAZING art. The gimmick here is that it turned PMD into a VN, and anytime you talk to anyone, their emotions are beautifully drawn art on the top screen. The gameplay consists of helping out the townspeople in a small village with their troubles through sidequests each day. It was definitely a vibe (though a bit long and meandering). I got immersed enough in the world and characters which is all I can ask for from a hack that aims to be a VN like this one. The ending was probably the only hack with a good twist (because this theme was so shitty and also fucking the same as last years if you think about it hard enough), and even then the twist is "they were dead the whole time!!!". Only reason it's decent is because they actually allude to it just enough that you don't see it coming but it makes a lot of sense in retrospect, so good job to the devs for pulling that off.
The hack has downsides - there was a good amount of text formatting issues, and sometimes the screen would glitch out when they transitioned maps because they kept forgetting to fade out between transitions. The writing, while good, I still think could have been a little bit better, mainly because it doesn't set things up properly between the mother and your player character before trying to pop open the emotional champagne, but maybe I'm just too cynical. The choreography was also quite weak, very heavily relying on the topscreen art to do all of the heavy lifting, but given how nice the art is it makes sense they want to make heavy use of it. The gameplay was also very token, and there were some hiccups with setting top/bottom screen textboxes here and there.
Overall, this is one of the hacks most worth playing. If I had to pick a hack that I think was going to win, it's probably this one, but we'll see what judges think.
Now for hacks I actually enjoyed.
Waves of Nostalgia
Cute world building, nice character writing, and AMAZING art. The gimmick here is that it turned PMD into a VN, and anytime you talk to anyone, their emotions are beautifully drawn art on the top screen. The gameplay consists of helping out the townspeople in a small village with their troubles through sidequests each day. It was definitely a vibe (though a bit long and meandering). I got immersed enough in the world and characters which is all I can ask for from a hack that aims to be a VN like this one. The ending was probably the only hack with a good twist (because this theme was so shitty and also fucking the same as last years if you think about it hard enough), and even then the twist is "they were dead the whole time!!!". Only reason it's decent is because they actually allude to it just enough that you don't see it coming but it makes a lot of sense in retrospect, so good job to the devs for pulling that off.
The hack has downsides - there was a good amount of text formatting issues, and sometimes the screen would glitch out when they transitioned maps because they kept forgetting to fade out between transitions. The writing, while good, I still think could have been a little bit better, mainly because it doesn't set things up properly between the mother and your player character before trying to pop open the emotional champagne, but maybe I'm just too cynical. The choreography was also quite weak, very heavily relying on the topscreen art to do all of the heavy lifting, but given how nice the art is it makes sense they want to make heavy use of it. The gameplay was also very token, and there were some hiccups with setting top/bottom screen textboxes here and there.
Overall, this is one of the hacks most worth playing. If I had to pick a hack that I think was going to win, it's probably this one, but we'll see what judges think.
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