Rebertha

I streamed this and the dev was there, but leaving my thoughts here anyway:

• +Cool title screen! Not too overdone, but nicely animated.
• +The 3d chase sections were a neat addition, in moderation.
• +The music (custom, I think) was fitting and nice.
• +The gloomy environment was well done.
• -Niggle: when resurrecting (or generally spending any resource) it should show your current HP.
• -The hp and key "finds" to open fires are way too close in graphic among themselves AND the particle graphic decor around the map, it took me a while (and the dev outright saying it) to realize they were meant to be different things. A massive improvement if they had distinctive shapes and/or colors.
• -The game doesn't do a very good job explaining how defusing the fires work. It would be better to straight our explain it, or to make the first instance of it a controlled environment with no dangers so the player can process what is happening. As it is, there are ostriches everywhere, making processing what's happening calmly very hard. 
• -Niggle: the display of "People saved" is bugged and resets the graphic to 0 when refreshing the screen, until another person is saved.
• -The ostriches as an obstacle are extremely overdone and become VERY tedious. I go in depth during the stream, but basically there are way too many, they activate from across the map, and they lag the game a lot. 
• -The tone of the game is a bit strange. The game page says its comedic, but the environment is mapped (fairly well) like a tense semi-horror adventure, but then the npcs have a somewhat aimless (i think mostly cameos from the dev's other game) semi-comedy text? You can join those themes if you want, but as it was I don't feel the switch felt natural. 
• -Due to the ostriches being such a pain the HP recovery had to be abused, and it was utterly slow. I'd recommend making each orb restore way more, or place a camp nowhere where you can fill back to max, even at the cost of hauling back there.

Due to the severe lag I had to stop playing (maybe the CPU usage from streaming was the cause), but I did feel l would have enjoyed this game ok if the ostriches were less annoying. AS they are, I felt they got on my ass too much to properly enjoy it.

I really like the premise of this game. It used the jam's theme of Rebirth really well. I like the little bits Rebertha commented on her surroundings and her interactions with others. The puzzle felt unique although the only element I feel that was underutilized with the Spirit Projection. Overall, it was a fun game with unique mechanics and an interesting premise.