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This game was WELL worth the wait !! I always knew it would be but it definitely proved itself !!

First off, I've played all the routes and surprised myself: I played Lacey's out of a grim sense of obligation and curiosity about playing an absolutely feral MC and I ended up liking both Lacey and the feral MC the best (sorry Haron... and my basic decency). She was the protagonist which I felt I built the best, with the perfect balance of madness and control. Lacey broke me down which was a SHOCK: I ended up loving the battle couple dynamic and totally falling for the banter between the two of them.

Ernol and Haron tied for me, weirdly enough: a very INTENSE set of brothers, and I need to run through their routes again now that I understand how to not get at least one of their grandparents merced 😅

The MC was another delight: I usually take VN MCs with a grain of salt, especially if they have a somewhat set appearance, assuming that their development is partially set in stone and that especially in a VN of this complexity, I might not be able to pick every reaction I would think realistic... but I absolutely could. Better yet, all the reactions seemed grounded in the situation: there wasn't a big red EVIL button I could slam to let everyone in the room know that this was the playthrough where I was gunna be a dick, but I could tell people to leave me alone and I could tell people I was scared.

There are a few crash errors, and I'm sorry I didn't keep track of them all (I play mostly at night when I'm only pseudo coherent), but I know that it fails on "It was a lot of trin" (or something to that effect) when shopping for clothes with Duliae, and during Ernol's route when approaching the island against after destroying the sea monster telling him something to the effect of "I won't let you make that choice" (I'm so sorry, apparently on my later playthroughs I forgot that I made saves where there were errors and saved overtop of them) trying to find what I think is an MC sprite (one referenced 'butter/MC' so I'm not sure if that was a typo in the code?) Besides that, I think it was Lacey who had an issue at one point where the MC referred to him as "[lacey]" which I assume was a referential variable meant to decide between his full name and nickname (if it helps, my MC would refer to him by his full name rather than "Lacey"), and I believe it was also Lacey's route where there was a... I don't know how to refer to it unfortunately, but it looked like '%s'.

And i don't know if this was a bug or not (or if it really matters to you, but just in case) but it's technically possible to purchase an outfit in the store and then rollback to the store again and have the full trin to unlock another outfit and repeat until you've unlocked all outfits. I'm not saying I did this, I'm just saying that my MC looks super great and the outfits were an incredible touch. Once I figured out that you could change your clothes in the Compendium, it was OVER for me. 

I understand if those aren't strictly helpful, but I tried 😅

Anyway, I've been following the game for a while and I'm THRILLED that it's finally been released! I devoured the routes in the first two night it was released, and I'm excited for my more purposeful (read: metagaming 😂) reruns. The art and writing are so good and it's so atmospheric and fun and just the thing I needed to buoy my mood !! Great work !!

Oh man <3 Hearing that after all this time it didn't end up a super disappointment is literally one of the best things to hear, thank you so so much <3 

The outfit thing is there on purpose -- so people could unlock all outfits, and then use them if they wanted to replay from the beginning of the game!

Lacey is a lot of people's surprise favorite, from what I've been hearing, has!

Thank you so for letting me know what bugs you founded <3

Ughhh thank you so so much!