I adored this little game! It was so heartwarming. Personally I felt like there needed to be more conflict and drama, but it was such a fun game to play through regardless!
I especially loved the plethora of choices you gave us to make throughout the game. I would've loved if there were even more, but that's just my personal preference with visual novels like this~ I really liked how it was set up to explore not only choices you make with your interactions with the characters, but also with your own discoveries about yourself, like body image and how you fare academically, what you think of your future if anything, feelings and opinions. It was really cool!
I also loved the customization parts at the start of each little stage! I was disappointed with the customization of your own character's appearance, since that never really even played out in the game as important and was rarely if ever brought up, but the fact you could kinda build Cove to your liking was pretty neat, even if the options were really minimal. It would've been an added neat bonus to be able to customize the other characters too in some way.
The story, artwork, music, and flow of the game itself was all very well done, even if things were kinda minimal, but the change in the way the sprites were shown made up for that a bit (at least with Cove, laying in the grass or driving, for example; it wasn't just backgrounds behind static sprites the whole time)!
Overall, good job! I really hope you guys make more like this, or continue with Our Life with more stories and options. Maybe even having the chance to play into other character routes.
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