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I am now depressed part 2 : electric boogaloo. Pillory is a dark rpg based where the fight system revolves around the emotions of our main character. The global vibes are rather cryptic for the demo. We get a very cute intro about a falling star not being at the right place at the right moment.

Then we arrive on the main land where we are greeted with a nice little fight tutorial and a bunch of nice npc interactions. After getting your ass beat (idk if its a skill issue of if this is scripted). You get to meet your first main character named Jury who will become your friend for the rest of the demo (and probably the adventure).

After dying you will go back to the hub where you can level up and learn about the different emotion weaknesses. I found the system a bit cryptic and hard to understand at first, but you have a spell that gives you info on your enemies. So you get used it.

I think what makes this game so nice is the quality of the animation. All characters in dialogue or not have such nice and cute and fun animations. It’s pretty rare to see animations that make the character go so close to the “camera” and honestly i loved it !

The story seems very interesting so far and I cannot wait to see what the dev has cooking !

On the other side we have the music and graphism. The graphism are rather simple with only black and whitish colors. Though don’t get fooled by the lack of colors, you will get charmed by the emotions portrayed by the wonderful character designs. As for the music and sound design, they are also rather simple but very nice, I never felt that the music was too long or repetitive.

If you have liked In stars and time as well as omori I believe you should give Pillory a try and wishlist it !