#GoldenerTraum

[kandyrezi]

your mirror image, 🌹🪞 and ice cream strawberries 🍧🍓

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[soul-doll2005]

Pocket Mirror

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[vozchik]

#pocket mirror goldenertraum #pocket mirror #goldenertraum #creepy game

[arlydarkfire]

Fresh new vod with the time stamps on it baby!

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[ratlesshonret]

The (few) things I didn’t like about Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum

 Okay. First off, I want to state that I LOVE this game. Dearly. Deeply. Favorite game of all time, tied with several others. However, that doesn’t mean it’s completely immune to criticism or that I have to praise every single decision that was made during the development, or ignore significant immersion issues. I love things, and part of that love is critique.

 Just to make it clear, this post is being made out of genuine love and admiration for both this game and the team behind it. This is in no way meant to be a hate post about the game, but I will be expressing things I found while playing that I’d consider issues.

 With that out of the way, let’s start with the big ones. Also, there will be spoilers ahead.

There’s a major audio syncing bug during the “chalk” scene before Harpae’s theater. My theory as to why this issue exists is because they changed the scene slightly, but did not update the music. I understand if the devs either were unwilling or unable to redo the music for this scene, but it’s majorly immersion breaking to have the sound of glass shattering be separated by an entire several seconds from the associated visual.

Mashing through text is SLOW. For a game that expects you to play several times to see every ending, there sure is no fast text option that I could find. Even mashing four buttons at once for frame-perfect dialogue skipping, it’s still slow. Scenes like Enjel’s Theater especially suffer from this, with it basically being a full six minutes even when mashing as fast as possible.

This one is more of a personal thing, but I was hoping at least some scenes would be slightly rewritten. Some of the dialogue is very stilted and odd, with some questionable punctuation choices as well. Harpae’s area is especially bad. I get that the conversations being cyclical and neither of them wanting the other to take blame for anything is thematic, but it is a bit annoying to sit through basically the same conversation over and over again.

Finally, the game is still kinda buggy. I know the team has worked super hard to patch the game several times, and I’m really thankful. I know it’s difficult to fix bugs, I really do. But encountering a softlock even after the “softlock fix” update, and other random issues, makes the game discouraging to play sometimes.

 And now, for the minor nitpicks.

Sprites. My biggest example of this is the scene where Harpae slaps Goldia. The handprint on Goldia’s face that was present in the original immediately after is completely missing. Also, in Enjel’s Theater, there’s no longer a unique “mouth zipped” sprite for Enjel, DESPITE THAT SPRITE EXISTING ON GOLDIA IN THE WITCHING HOUR ENDING. This one genuinely makes the scene less coherent, as Enjel’s mouth getting sewn up is the focal point of the scene.

Less impactful choices. The two I can think of here are both in Lisette’s area, with the “Accept or Protect” choice, and the “Help Me?” choice. In the former, it used to be a screen-wide filter was applied, and the text that you were choosing between was large and stylized to cover most of the screen. In the latter, you had to physically stand over your dialogue option. I understand if the engine doesn’t support these “special” dialogue choices, but replacing them with just normal choice boxes is a bit disappointing.

I am glad for the removal of two of the ballroom scenes, as they slowed pacing to a halt, but it’s still sad to lose content. I don’t really have a solid complaint here, I’m just reminiscing.

Another “not really a complaint” I have is the theaters. I understand that it’d be insanely hard to re-animate every single theater, but I was also hoping they’d be at least slightly touched up beyond just higher resolution. At the very least, changing them to reflect the character’s new designs would be nice.

Fleta’s voice clips being the only ones not redone is kinda annoying since she easily had some of the most insufferable sounds to listen to. Again, I don’t know what the team’s situation regarding that was, and I also don’t wanna shade her original VA, it’s just strange that hers weren’t redone. Though I suppose her being annoying is kinda the point.

 I think that’s about it for now. I know some of these were just things carried over from the original that I hoped were changed, but my most pressing issues are the things that were removed or broken between the transition from original to remaster. I don’t know if the team simply decided these elements were unimportant, or they didn’t have time to redo it all, or (and I’m not saying this is the likely possibility) they simply didn’t care.

 I’m glad Pocket Mirror has had any new content at all. And I’m so happy that they put in the effort to make this labor of love while also (i think) still working on an entire other game. But... some of these design choices were baffling, especially for how long the game seemed to take.

 I understand game design isn’t easy, but some of these decisions were baffling. I hope we at least receive a few more patches that address some of these issues, or even a major content update that overhauls some of the more odd things.

 Finally, I’ll probably make a post about what I loved in the remaster, because this much negativity about something I like makes my head hurt.

 Love you, AstralShift <3

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[limayde]

If you like RPG horror games, you should play Pocket Mirror. It is very very good.

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[mistermixmania]

#MusikNews #GoldenerTraum #NIKOTIN

[nabob1204]

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[eliseliedl]

Keep your memories close to your heart.

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[valkavavaart]

pocket mimir

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[kandyrezi]

“ding dong, dong ding, my most precious rule is, not all pretty girls need a king.”

—the lilliputian princess

#⚜️ #pocket mirror (game) #fleta (pocket mirror) #pocket mirror #rpg maker horror #goldenertraum #pink pastel #royalcore #(top right img is in reference to goldia's bad ending)

[limoncats]

drew Harpae in-colour for the 1st time! honestly surprised that i hadn't drawn her coloured earlier...

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[vozchik]

#pocket mirror goldenertraum #pocket mirror #goldenertraum

[lior-le-loir]

Trying to summon the Pocket Mirror Fandom 🪞✨

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[pavementlloss]

Good morning，Lisette

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[jellypy]

06-2023 - Self-martyr

Harpae has never quite been my favorite character, but her story and motivations have always been the ones that intrigued me the most. It is so nice to see all the girls again in the Pocket Mirror remake!

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