Hips N Noses: demo impressions

It’s a world where nobody sleeps, except for your character, Mela, and Beri, the owner of the Hips N Noses cafe. Beri promised you a solution to get rid of sleep, but due to something called hollow disease, she forgot what it was. So, naturally, what you decide to do in this situation is to work in Beri’s cafe brewing coffee (or maybe concocting is a better word in this case) that helps customers affected by this weird amnesia to recover their short-term memories while you two figure out how to recover her older memories. Mela and Beri meet. I first watched Hips N Noses‘ trailer during the Six One Indie summer showcase and the first aspect that caught my attention in the trailer was the super original art style, with its rough and thick black lines, flat shading, and manga-style character proportions. The style was reminiscent of a 90s or early 00s cartoon I just can’t quite pin down. I thought: fun, one more cafe management game! Then Mela goes to bed and a Vampire Survivors-like…