The First Rule of Willow Manor is...
You do not talk about Willow Manor!
Art was decent, and multiple endings are good incentive to keep playing, but constant clicking and an unoriginal twist ending make for a bit of a disappointment.
Reviews for "Mystery of Willow Mannor"
tenentenen responds:
I guess it really is similar to fight club, which I have never seen.
I understand your point of view, but it was what we came up with in such a short time.
Thanks for giving us a shot though.
all in all a good game
The story was interesting, the extra endings were fun. THe flaws to the game were:
1.When you die you start all over again, you have to click through all the text at the begining, that was a little bit frustraiting
2.The only action done by the character that made an impact on the world of the game gets completely discarded. I mean the killing of Norm. You kill him and he appears again like nothing happened.
But, as stated in the title of the review, this is a good game
tenentenen responds:
Thanks for the comments.
Mittens :3
Even if this is a short game, I really appreciated it. It's funny and mindblowing at the same time, and I love the gfx and the music. The only thing i would have preferred is to have more control of your character, by, for example, using stuff you can find in the background or somethng like that. Really loved it however.
Like it!
I liked it, the art and sound really drags you in. Some things i did not feel got explained, maybe i missed it or have to play again to figure out, like the glowing goo. If i have to give some constructive critic it would be that i personally would have liked less humour. I liked it more when it feelt serious and a bit scary. The reference to his mittens was cute though :)
tenentenen responds:
Goo was explained indirectly in both "good end" and "true end"
We were not going for really creepy, but it's good to know that that's what some people like.
good idea, great art, not so good story.
Think you should try harder with the writing, next time. a project like this has a ton of potential. The ending was a clear rip off, I mean we all get our ideas from somewhere but its how we put them together in new ways that makes an interesting story.
I really want to see you take another shot at this, starting from scratch. this time leaving out the chickens and what not. If you want i can help you brain storm just PM me on here or something. I have a few ideas.
watch some paranormal shows like X-Files. surf around the net for weird creepy stuff. (the /x/ boards on the chans is a good start). build a resource of ideas to pull from.
the art for this was great. music selection was right on. it was a nice little short fun game to play. Dont give up on this theres a ton of stuff you can do with it, you could really give some of these people nightmares if you execute it right.
tenentenen responds:
You need to take into account that It was almost meant to PARODY, not scare, and with the little amount of time we had, It is not easy to write an AMAZING STORY, and I think we did pretty well(Game Jam). Of course a project like this has potential, and I'd like to do another, but the jokes were there, and were the original part of the writing.
The story was not a CLEAR rip off, I have never seen fight club, but I'm sure they are quite similar according to what people have said. It was not meant to be legitimately scary. I do NOT need help with writing, and this story will NOT be revisited.
Tanks for offering your advice, but You have to remember, this was all made in 72 hours (story included) for the game jam.
There will most likely be another game using a similar engine, but it will be written better, as we will have more time, Thanks for offering help though.