Never before have so many words been used to say so little! OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but Eye of the Moon is truly so verbose as to be kind of ridiculous, especially when the same things are expressed over and over again without anything new being added.
This problem is exasperated by the small cream lettering on a red background, the sparse and superficial choices, and the fact that images and button do not load in unless you allow 3rd-party image embedding.
But even without those considerations, it's too much. And worse still, since it is a work in progress, currently it's all for naught, everything builds up to nothing, there is no pay-off waiting at the end, not even a cliffhanger.
With the exception of the MC's parents, who are merely uninteresting, none of the (present) characters are likeable - not even Apolaki, with whose objective of taking Mayari down a few pegs, I sympathize.
Are there then no redeeming features? Well, sort of: It was intriguing to experience a neopagan reimagining of Philippine mythology that bears little or no resemblance to any of the myriad versions of the real thing.
Speaking of which, the claim that "The story is immersed in pre-colonial Filipino culture and history; it purposefully sheds Western concepts around gender, sexuality, and religion", is an outrageously blatant lie:
On the contrary, the story forces postmodern Western conceptions about gender, sexuality and religion onto a very superficial wire-frame that is only related to pre-colonial Philippine culture in the most tenuous and superficial way.
This may come as a shock, but there weren't any LGBTQ+ barangays, if Siamese kathoeys ever made their way to the pre-colonial Philippines, it never caught on, and polyamory was restricted to some maginoos' polygyny... lol
Hopefully, at some point in the future, it will be possible for the reader to side with the aswang against the diwata. Unfortunately, I don't have the requisite patience to either wait for that update nor to replay the game when, if ever, it drops.
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