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Review by elias all reviews by elias

I liked this game a lot. Managed to complete the entire song. It's well made for 72 hours, even if some of the rules are missing. I assume the song has something to do with a fable or another rule but I could not find a readme or logs so not sure.

I was intimidated at first since I don't know much about music and matching visually seemed impossible at first - but then I remembered that the weird squiggly symbols are usually at the beginning and so placed the four beginning tiles correctly (at that point also realized they turn blue when in the right position). Then I noticed that some squares have a vertical line to the right and - those fit at the ends!

By then I had noticed that clicking a piece would play its notes and they all sounded different, the ones that sounded similar (high/low/whatever the music term is for that) went to the same row!

Btw. some of the provided DLLs were missing dependencies but I could copy the missing DLLs over from another entry and then it would run.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 2 Technical 4 Genre 2

Review by victorwss all reviews by victorwss

This gains the audio bonus for sure. It was an interesting idea.

However, it was too far incomplete to ever be qualified as a game, although it is playable at least. Also, it have nothing to do with TINS 2023 rules: No animals, no fable, no iridiscence, no speech balloons, no charts and no 2-player stuff.

The code shows that it is something very incomplete, just a proof of concept of a gameplay mechanic and not a game yet, much less one within the TINS 2023 rules.

Unfortunately, there isn't much more to say.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 2 Technical 2 Genre 1

Review by Yubi all reviews by Yubi

Hmmm, a music game.

It is generally interesting to me because it is a music game, but I can't think of many outstanding qualities to praise.

I know a bit of violin and was barely able to complete the puzzle without having to brute-force the solution. The temptation is very strong, however, especially the tiles are highlighted in blue when placed in the correct positions. I would often discover the correct position for a tile accidentally while merely trying to rearrange tiles in placeholder positions, cheating me somewhat of the joy of a legitimate solution.

It would have been a nice reward to have the entire passage play with all four quartet members once the score is fully assembled. Perhaps that was the intent? Unfortunately, my game locks up and does not progress after I had all the tiles in their places. That means I can't progress to the second level if there is one, and my playthrough of Quartet must end.

I'm curious about the title of the piece featured in level 1. I would be pleased to listen to a proper recording of it.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical None Technical None Genre None