OMGGG english is not my first language and im afraid that ill mix some words, but i REALLY wanted to say that this game is SO well made!!!
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
ive made all options and the 2 endings, and honestly, i was crying in both...this really touched my heart and it was soo relatable!! The "worst part" for me was the panic attack scene, the background with the ost, the description in there got me so anxious becauses its so REAL.
i liked so much the characters designs and, specially, their voices! Emerges so much in the story and you can feel how much effort they put to make the characters more real yk! totally a 10/10 <3
Kalei's ending, for me, it was how a healing process is after you suffered so much with anxiety, fear, rejection and loneliness. Hes so kind and honest with you, trying to always make you feel comfortable enough and enjoying all the time with you, even if it was a simple thing. For example, the Geist little devolopment at the end was like one of the good consequences of ur healing process with Kalei helps, ur negavity and anxiety just being at a "normal" level, just starting to being healthy.
and Kalei is TOTALLY unlike Geist. Hes like a personification of anxiety itself?? But hes sooo well writen, you KNOW hes trying to manipulate you and tries to play with you with his words, because all the things he says is so terrible but he ALWAYS try to say in the sweetest way in the end at the point you starts to feel so confused about his actions!
The Geist ending brought me two interpretations:
The first one was he being the personification of social anxiety, you locked yourself in a toxic comfort zone and just <want> to believe thats the better option, just wanting to believe that ur happy being so lonely and not trying anything more becauses of the constant feeling of fear.
The other one is he representing a toxic and manipulative relationship, always trying to bringing you down and comforting you with all the sweetest things even if he IS the reason you're hurt, always forcing you to neglect urself and putting him in a pillar of the REAL happiness, the "perfect choice", the "most protective person" and the "most lovely one". At the end, you cant even decides for urself and just live depending on his "distorced love" becauses he made you believe in that.
thats a small detail but i really liked the pronouns options, its kinda of kindness for being inclusive!
Sorry if i said something not understandable, but i tried to show how much i loved this game!! it was a little important to me because made me realize feelings bought by unhelead traumas that i have to work on it, the game shows you how important is to being open with other people and ask for help, even the small conversations can help you!
Thats It! ill be playing ur others games too, i loved ur writing :)