It Paints Me was a tough game to judge. On one hand it had great music and atmosphere, a decent amount of choices, and decent voice acting. The story is where I felt conflicted. I felt too much was missing from it. I know this was a jam game so it was going to be short but I felt like not enough backstory was given on Sam or Marie. We get a glimpse of details but not much more. I also found Sam a little whiny and distrustful. If I was supposed to then good job but if not then something got crossed between the game and I.
I played It Paints Me on Linux. It never crashed and I didn't notice any spelling errors. You can save whenever you want and it has fifty four save slots.
Game Engine: Ren'Py 8.2.1.24030407
Graphics API: OpenGL
Disk Space Used: 280 MB
GPU Usage: 7-10 %
VRAM Usage: 1701-2168 MB
CPU Usage: 6-8 %
System RAM Usage: 4.5-4.6 GB
I can't say I disliked the game but I also can't say i did like it overall. It has a lot going for it and I think given how well everything but the story was great in my eyes that given the right material I'm bound to enjoy some of the developer's future work. I finished three endings in twenty one minutes. Visual novels are tough to judge even when free because there are lot of good free visual novels out there. It’s stiffer competition than some genres.
My Score: 6.5/10
My System:
Intel i5-12600K | 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 | Gigabyte RX 7800 XT 16GB | Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB | Linux Mint 22 | Dasharo 1.1.1 | Mate 1.26.1 | Kernel 6.8.0-45-generic | Mesa 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.2