The Doll's Window

Theres no options, no control accessibility, no changing the volume, nothing. The carpets lead you to walls. The backdrop is poorly designed. The movement is jarring and unusual. The transition between scenes is too abrupt. You cant play using WASD. The control instructions dont actually match the real controls. The storyline is uninteresting. This game is just awful. Usually I have SOMETHING positive I can say but this time I just dont.

Nice art-style

If my future child ever wants to transition, i will lock them in their room until they beat THIS THING and harvester without the help of the internet as a torture method.

A lot less glitchy than Ami's room, however the puzzles are far too unclear. It could be worth getting a friend to play test your games, just to check how beatable they are and to check for glitches <3

It seems like a cool story and I love the background music. It kinda gives Mad Father and Ib vibes, which made me really like it at the beginning, and I even feel that I somewhat related to Elma from the little bit I learned about her but the gameplay itself is just so...frustrating. The main character moves too slowly to get away from enemies (enemies often seem faster than the main character) and once you're hurt, the character freezes and it's impossible to run away. I really do want to enjoy this game but it's so frustrating that it feels like a waste of time.

I'll say it like this: as other comments said, this game does feel a lot like Ib (so much so that I'm pretty sure it even uses the same font), but that is not a bad thing in itself. The art is good (in a way cute, at least in my opinion), and I'm sure the story wasn't all that bad, even though I never experienced it fully. And that's because this game lacks a sense of purpose. The story feels fragmented - as if it were a complete story, but then someone rearranged the events and loosely put them together so you're not weirded out. Maybe that's where all parallels to Ib come to light the most - it does feel like a copied and rearranged plot from Ib. It also doesn't give the player any goals. Why are we going to the circus in the first place? Why is it different or weird enough for us to sneak backstage? Why are we trying to help Elma (as, if I remember correctly, we said we came here to do)? It felt like the backstory wasn't properly laid out for the player to care about moving forward. Other, easier-to-fix complaints would be that sometimes it's not clear that there are doors you can walk through (sometimes I wouldn't notice a passage because it just looked like a wall, not a door)…