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Otome Jam 2023 Reviews (kbin.social)

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https://itch.io/jam/otome-jam-2023/entries

If you've read any of the new entries in the link, please leave all thoughts here in this thread. I've read a handful so far and wanted to dive in in the comments. Keep in mind the comments may have spoilers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nuts: I thought the trigger warnings were for if you picked that guy to romance, so I picked the guy that had no trigger warnings, Ackerman. But the main narrative itself has the trigger? content and I'm not into horror. The premise is that an event occurred that made nuts, owls, and squirrels into human hybrids for the last ?decade? And they're having a dating show between Nut Hybrid humans.

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The Squirrel man literally eats the contestants you reject and you get told this via off screen video with like red blinking screen and cracking noises. But then MC monologues about how they'll get out of this and tell everyone to get it to stop. So I persevered through to pick Ackerman, watched a really weird really dark scene between the Peanut and the Squirrel before he went to his death... and it doesn't payoff that Hazel and Ackerman come back to cancel the show. It just ends. They were cute together but it just