Oh boy where do I even begin? There's so much so gush about that I cant even handle it <3 English isn't my first language so I'll probably run out of vocabullary for some things but bear with me please XD
I think I'll start by thanking the game creator, Ahna. When I played the demo I was SO amazed by the game complexity that I was reading my purse for when it came out. I mean, its only obvious it'd be paid right? It must've taken so much hard work and time to desing all those characters, all the routes (and jesus there were SO MANY OPTIONS ICANT EVEN) and all the amazing dialogues that it seemed only fair. But imagine my surprise when I saw it was FREE O.O Jesus we dont deserve u Ahna ;-; I gave a bit of money and I can only be sorry I couldn't give more to such a talented game designer like her. Anyway, thank you so so much for this. I had a REALLY fun time. Life hasn't been very kind to me lately but this made me smile a lot, and I rlly needed that.
SO, back to the game. If I had to say what were the things that made me love this game so much I'd say there's 3 reasons: character costumization, dialogue options, and the well blended romance. Tbh it took me a while to notice this game because it had, at first, a pretty dark and gloomy feel to it. I'm a sucker for romance so I thought " nah its probably some dark story with some equaly dark, boring, expressionless characters who probably wont romance for shit" but boooooooy, how wrong I was. I aint gonna lie, the costumization option got me lol I can't help it, I just really aprecciate creators who go out of their way to help players create their own experience. And GOD she added so many costumization options <3 I loved that we could choose our character's personality type! When I saw that I could CHOOSE an outfit I almost screamed lol
But the BEST thing ever, the thing that REALLY got me hooked were the dialogues. They were SOOOOOOOO fun, interesting and exciting to read! Considering it was ALL done by a SINGLE person, I dont even have words to describe my amazement. I like to try out all the dialogue choices and I was not dissapointed! The story got more and more interesting by the second and I was always sweating like a pig thinking " shitshitshit what if I messed up". The death endings mostly made sense, everytime I died I just laughed at myself like "lmao ofc you'd die u dumb b*tch" so we really have to think carefully. I never knew whom to trust, and it was fun figuring out the best course of action. The game its really long too, almost like reading a book! Whenever I got that dreaded feeling that the "To be continued" or "The end" would come, the game just kept going, to my utter happiness.
And let me just say this: Ahna maybe an spectacular job with the romance option. Okay,maybe I'm getting ahead of myself cause I just romanced one guy for now but STILL. I mean, the game had a REALLY dark feeling to it, with all the dark eleves and all, but our character kinda brightened up things and so the romance just felt right most of the times.
The only thing that left me juuuust a tiny lil' bit sad was that there weren't many images featuring our character given all the events happening in the story, but that is completly understandable since Ahna was doing everything by herself not to mention she was runing on the clock lol Her art is rlly captivating too, very dark and very different to what I'm used to, but I liked it! Sure I think it needed a bit of work, not that I'm a drawing expert or anything, but I'm sure her artstyle will only improve with time. But really thats just a minor issue.
aNYWAY, I loved tis game and TOTALLY recomend it to whoever likes VN's with romance options. Even if you're not rlly into the dark stuff, I assure you you'll love this one! Ahna is such an amazing person, always updating us on her progress on social media, and giving us this amazing game for free! I will deffinetly support her and keep track of any games she plans to launch on the future! (COFCOFCOF can we have a sequelCOFCOCOF)