I know I can count on Studio Madeleine Chai for quality visual novels :D
I loved the single-choice mechanism and the parallax background. Keep up the good work!
Reviews for "Promenade: An Afternoon Walk in a Park"
Really nice!! The music was calming, the art was beautiful, and the voice acting was pretty great :)
The writing hits just perfectly (at least for me) and aaaaaah <3 I'm so hyped to see what you all create next.
StudioMadeleineChai responds:
(Tim) Thank you for the kind words! We hope you stay around for our future projects :)
This is just so good to be true.
Art was perfect and game was magical at its own. One of the best games ive played here in newgrounds. Keep up the good work. I have played a lot of visual novel and this is one is very great. A little feedback I could give is, the character seems like its just standing, art is very great but I hope that she has some little poses like looking up or down and becuase this is a visual novel I like to see some scenes with different perspectives and camera angles. Maybe my suggestions were already in the game I just havent played it that long but I like it. I hope my small suggestions may help you.
StudioMadeleineChai responds:
(Tim) Thanks for your kind response!
Regarding your feedback, I agree entirely that her body is quite static. Part of it was due to the requirements of the jam (which would only allow one moving body part at most), but the bigger issue was that we ran into troubles with our original artist and had to substitute a premade asset.
We really like how this game turned out, so we might release an updated / remade version in the future!
So, my rating has a good bit of personal preference in it, which is a bit of a downer. It seems overly "artsy" to me to the point of coming off pretentious. Perhaps that's the point, though? The writing isn't necessarily bad, but it isn't holding my attention.
On the positive end: The voice acting is excellent, the music is excellent, and the art is excellent. Because of these things, I ended up rating this high in spite of this not fitting to my taste overall. If my main critique was the point of your project, then you can consider this a resounding success!
StudioMadeleineChai responds:
(Tim) Thank you for your review! I appreciate your critique.
When I did the writing, I wanted to make the narration (via choices) as distinct as possible so that the payoff of the narrator being an actual character is heightened. The stilted nature of their "conversation" was intentional, but there was certainly much room for improvement before the voice acting phase of the project.
Hope you stick around for other projects!
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