My Best (Magical) Friend! by spotco
My Best (Magical) Friend!
A very japanese visual novel about friendship, trust and cool magical powers.
Arrow keys + Z/Space
By:
SPOTCO @spotco programming, story, writing
hinerz @swaggerzaki programming (only a little bit), writing, japanese culture contributor
kcanaga @kcanaga art
A very japanese visual novel about friendship, trust and cool magical powers.
Arrow keys + Z/Space
By:
SPOTCO @spotco programming, story, writing
hinerz @swaggerzaki programming (only a little bit), writing, japanese culture contributor
kcanaga @kcanaga art
Ratings
| Coolness | 75% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.86 | 102 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.56 | 207 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.37 | 77 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.39 | 180 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.95 | 646 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.90 | 90 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.76 | 998 |
+ Super cute and fun story
+ Great art work and music
+ Impressive amount of work
+ Really cool interface
Con:
- It was a bit unclear when it was a decision moment, in my first run I had to restart because I didn't think I couldn't go back
Obs:
o Some lines appeared even though it didn't make sense with my choices (e.g. I didn't help Mana-chan but still it's mentioned that she called my name)
o The honorific suffixes sometimes didn't feel consistent (e.g. I did see one Ms. suddenly)
Awesome work!
One thing that bugged me was the choppy text print out, It would be better if it printed out one letter at a time or one word at a time. (Also some feedback sound effect when you move in the menues and when you change dialoge would have been nice)
Judging one is also a bit tough, as there's a lot of writing to do, and little time to do it.
The biggest things that stood out to me were the basics. The font was hard to read, the text appear would wrap mid-word (I'm guilty of this in my own game, so I can't reeeally dock you for this), and the moving text boxes are a bit tiresome when doing a lot of reading.
The writing also felt a bit stiff, but this isn't surprising given the amount of time that was available.
Overall very impressed with sheer content quantity and general quality of what was given. I would strongly encourage you to make a post-jam version of this and polish it up.
Graphical production values were very high and there were a lot of scenes (though I did not finish it all.) Well crafted.
Got the good end, got chills. Plan on playing again to see the other different endings and segments. Thanks for making this, hope to see more like this from you guys!
Great game, great art, great music, makes for a really good mood.
Only problem is I want more of it.
For example, I would like to know who is sending those alert messages, is there maybe a a darker plot behind that as well? :D
Even tho it's absolutely not my type of game, I did enjoy it for a while
You truly are a Japanese guy born in a Chinese body
i liked the story paths.