Trick & Treat

BEWARE, THE REVIEW CONTAINS SOME MINOR SPOILERS

Background
Uuh... I didn’t really remember, but probably I found the summary of the game on my facebook’ home around March. And I’m sooo glad that I didn’t have to wait too long before the game’ completed. Since you have such a cute and nice artwork, so why not?

Graphics & Artwork : 4.5/5
The map’s so cute and nice (I love all the doll’ room, especially the blue one), not to mention the spirites are adorable! I love how the character’ expression changed based on the dialogue. And the CGs are awesome! Suggestion from me is, you better make the dungeon much darker than that so it much scarier and the flashlight completely used! And, why you don’t put the dead end’ CG on the album? They’re awesome! (I love the one CG of the 9th Dead End!).

And can you guess my favorite CG? Yep, the one with Richard nd Charlotte with red thread on their pinky finger.

Background Music & Effects (Audio) : 3/5
I won’t complain about the lack of BGM because it’s necessary to make the players not being lulled by it and keeping the tensed atmosphere up. As for the sounds effects they’re good and tidily in place. However, I think it’ll be better if you add some footsteps effects on the game, to add more horror elements on it!

Story, Plot, & Character : 4.5/5
Okaay... so the other great things about this game is its plot!! I love how you make us thought like some bad things happens in the mansion, fearing that the blood-sucker owner would pop out in any second and drunk Amelia’ blood, and devilish butler with some mysterious air around him. But when I come to the conclusion, it was really surprised me out how the things are actually... vegetative? (idk what’s the suitable word for this it LOL, orz) It ends nicely, sweetly, and make me smile all the way as I read the reasons and the truth about all the things happened.

All the character are lovely—sweet and innocent Amelia, pushy and caring Charlotte, gentle and helpful John, and kind but timid Richard. They are naturally believeable and not annoying at all! And I couldn’t help but shipping JohnAme and RiCharlotte. (sorry, again my otome filter just automatically fully turned on along the end of the game and in Bonus room)

I love how you make every possibility of game over as the “Dead End” and make some CGs for each of them. But, the game is lack the complexity to achieve the true end. It’ll be much better if players (in this case, Amelia) should go through some additional puzzles, or collecting some hidden item to achieve the true end. And also, the Bad End could have been much... worse than that, because it didn’t give us the urge to achieve a better ending. And I give you that 0.5 point because I can see two possible ships here! (sorry, it’s just me and my otome-filter orz)

Playthrough : 3.5/5
The movement of the character was in good pace—it was simply nice. About the puzzle, I think it’s simply good cause I'm already stuck in the earlier phase of the game. But the things is, other than the time-limited puzzles, I didn’t find the other puzzles are challenging. Even so, I love how most of the puzzles are tied with each other! I also like how you put some random jumpscares in almost every corner of the mansion, so the players remember that this isn’t a mere cute halloween-themed RPG. I also love you made us Bonus room to preview some CGs and idly chatting with the other characters.

Summary
This is really great, nice, heartwarming game. At first, I suspected some gore-ending but what you gave me are two ships that never make my mind rest (since my drawing’s suck, can I make a fanfict of JohnAme and RiCharlotte?). Even though it’s out-of-season I’m glad I didn’t have wait too long until Halloween to play this game! And....

THIS GAME DESERVES MORE LOVE!!!

Over All Scores : 3,875 (let’s round it up to 4!)

Remembering it's the first game that the creator has ever made, it was totally awesome! I really looking forward for the next game! Thank you for making such a sweet game like this!
p.s. : I hope you can make some doodle of JohnAme cause why not *please ignore this haha, forgive me but I can't control my shipping mode XD

-regards, Fumaira