I’m not super deep on the vtuber scene. I’ve watched highlights from time to time but I couldn’t name more than maybe two off hand. Even so, the sort of parody aspects of streamer/vtuber culture feel sort of shallow. Citri will vaguely sass the chat for being horny, but I think there could have been more emphasize on how that relationship plays out. Her scripted comments are largely relegated to swearing during a game over or saying “we got it this time!” The game’s final moments reveal its core plot twist about streamer girls in hell or whatever, but there’s not a lot of groundwork to “Citri robs from charity streams” that there could have been. Maybe a few times she could read off donation goals or insist that “the Children’s Hospital really needs this!” or little things that make it lean into that whole parasocial undercurrent of streaming culture.

But then again, this was a game jam game made in 72 hours. There’s not a lot of time to do a deep dive on streamer crimes unless you’re deep in that well, and that’s not a well I’d want anyone to be too addicted to. The graphic design is cute enough. The dev has two other games of note: Project Malice and Roseblight. The prior is a isometric roguelike and the latter is an adventure game. All these of these games just have a great pixel-art style and you can really see their style works well in so many other genres. The skill to work in all those kinds of game styles is similarly impressive and the reviews on steam and itch are glowing. Its nice to see!