Heartless Deal by Kakera

Heartless Deal is a visual novel about a person who sold its soul to a demon and try to get it back by playing a game with a bored demon.
(The game was made in only 30 hours due to external constraints)
Music : Dr.MidiK : http://www.dr-midik.fr/made-with-Orion/made-with-Orion.html
| Windows | https://kakera-art.itch.io/heartless-deal |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/heartless-deal |
Ratings
| Given | 31🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
The graphics and the music are excellent together, and I failed a few of the questions the first time I
encountered them, well done visual novel!
The design of the demon is really nice. The music is also very nice and fits the mood perfectly. The only thing I'd work on a little is trying to make all the different visual styles work together somehow, since there seems to be a little clash between them. It's an impressive job for two days, well done!
keep it up
Not my favourite kind of game, but I had fun with this one, and the option to have self voicing is nice, I didn't use it but it is nice to have these kind of accessibility options ;)
The ambiance is also really nice, put you really fast in the mood !
I love your game.
It really touched me. I was a bit confused what shall I choose, yet my choices (I would normally choose them :open_mouth: ) were the correct ones. And twice I tried something more cruel which failed :smile:
And the demon. It was so... beutiful.. :heart:
Good job guys!
UI looked original, only the font was a bit too squiggly for the Help-section, and some link positions were off. For some reason I couldn't open the menu mid-game (esc). I didn't like the pre-choice text window, the text looked too cramped there.
I'm not a fan of sudden deaths, especially if it goes to guessing which cards are the right ones, but I did stick around to finish the game once. I liked the card mechanic, too! The story was gripping, though I agree with @bentekiller, I was at times confused if the character was he or a she. Some parts of the story in the latter part of the game were hard to follow, but overall the story worked well. I liked the ending!
Font in menu is hard to read better use anything simpler.
But the game is nice I like it :3
I clicked on your game when I saw the demon art, and I was not disappointed. I truly love him, the art, the colors, the face expressions, congrats for that ! However I feel like there have been more work on this character than everything else :/ The menus are simple, no font, the text doesn't appear letter by letter (which would give a feeling that there's an actual dialogue), no audio effects, just a music that, in my opinion, doesn't suit the story this well...
The art and audio part aren't something hard to change, I just don't think you took the best possible direction for your story and your game design. That is my pure personal opinion though, and overall I think the game can become really great, but I wanted to share my thoughts with your team, so tell me what you think ! :)
