{"rewrite":{"id":"r_0551ebbbc16ed3cf4d4cc01a","clusterId":"c_d9047ad416b754268a707c76","slug":"finding-polka-sends-a-girl-and-her-dog-through-a-ballpoint-pen-city","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Finding Polka Sends A Girl And Her Dog Through A Ballpoint-Pen City","summary":"Game Spark's Terukazu Yoshida played Finding Polka, an interactive adventure from developer lidlocks and publisher PARCO GAMES. The heroine, Frendy, spots a dog in the city that looks exactly like her former pet Polka and sets out to find it with her dog Jazz. Helping residents in trouble turns them into friends, and the field is drawn in ballpoint pen.","whyItMatters":"A small publisher-backed adventure built on a single walk through a hand-drawn city, where the only interactive figures are the ones in trouble, tests whether curiosity about incidental detail can carry a game on its own.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe path through the city is mostly fixed. Forks close off through things like road closures, so progress comes from helping the people who are stuck. Someone wrapped in bandages is about to be stabbed with a huge syringe. A muscular man stands in front of a person walking while looking at a phone. Only the people in trouble can be spoken to, but the ones drawn in the background still read as if they have their own stories.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way Frendy finds dog droppings and stops to inspect them, on the chance they belong to Polka.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Finding Polka renders its city in ballpoint pen, so Frendy's search reads like a sketchbook page. The missing-dog plot and the pen-stroke field are the same idea: everything is provisional until you find it.","twitterPost":"Finding Polka draws its whole city in ballpoint pen. Frendy's search for her dog is the plot, but the art supplies the mood.","threadsPost":"Finding Polka is built on a ballpoint pen look, which is a strange choice for a game about searching: the entire city reads as a rough draft. Frendy looks for a dog that resembles her old pet Polka, and the drawing style keeps the world unfinished until she gets there.","newsletterBlurb":"Terukazu Yoshida played Finding Polka, an interactive adventure from developer lidlocks and publisher PARCO GAMES. Frendy and her dog Jazz search a ballpoint-pen city for a dog that looks exactly like her former pet Polka. Helping stranded residents turns them into friends, and the field hides small details worth staring at.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/15/172301.html\",\"title\":\"[Terukazu Yoshida's Illustrated Diary] A touching reunion with a beloved dog...or so it should be, but the situation is weird every time. Interactive adventure game about searching for a dog, 'Finding Polka'\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4733,"outputTokens":593,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789468166,"createdAt":"2026-09-15T10:25:53.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-15T10:28:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T10:28:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_d9047ad416b754268a707c76","canonicalTitle":"【吉田輝和の絵日記】愛犬との感動の再会……のはずが、毎回シチュエーションがおかしい。愛犬探しインタラクティブADV『Finding Polka』","representativeArticleId":"a_376285b2fdddb454fb4db715","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Finding Polka\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Terukazu Yoshida\"],\"type\":\"review\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-15T09:30:04.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-15T09:30:04.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-15T10:28:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/15/172301.html","title":"【吉田輝和の絵日記】愛犬との感動の再会……のはずが、毎回シチュエーションがおかしい。愛犬探しインタラクティブADV『Finding Polka』"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Finding Polka"],"studios":[],"people":["Terukazu Yoshida"],"type":"review","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}