the great 2025 unsealing

I was getting nostalgic thoughts and I decided to revisit this project I sealed away. I gave it a little play last night and thought, "hey, why don't I unseal it like Dreaming of Shadow?"

This was actually a game I was working on before I ended up working on Slimes that I ditched because my vision for it wasn't solid and I wasn't as experienced with RPG game dev as I am now. You can kinda see that this was a proto I Hate You, Please Suffer, as playing this back I could see themes and ideas that'd be used in IHYPS. Sincerely, there was a lot of things I forgot that originated from this game, like the central country being a place called Engel (though here being named Enngel) and the landlord from IHYPS clearly being recycled from Whittaker. In fact, I guess you could say that the dungeon here is a cousin of the concept of the Grand Dungeons, and the mouse people are kind of a cousin of the lupine wolf people. BUT OH MAN, I wish I remembered the concept of walking jellyfish people, those would have been fun NPCs like the Illumina (a note here: the Air Slimes are mimics of Illumina, much like how the Wrath Slimes more closely resemble humans).

Will I ever revisit this specific project? Probably not. I sincerely lost the source files because they were on an old laptop I don't have, and I'll be honest, like A Gang of Weirdos, I made this on a pirated version of MV before I bought it properly, way after I lost that laptop. Maybe I'll recycle Quiddity for something, though I'd change his clothes because I didn't realize he had Joker colors.