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I really liked this game, both for its visuals and its soundtrack. I still have the main theme stuck in my head, lol.

Beyond that, I enjoyed the characters a lot. At first, I thought it would be a typical yandere romance, but when the first death happened, I had to take a step back.

"Wait, wait... she's alive?" That's when I realized she couldn't die, which explained why she didn't care about it.

I had fun reading about their dates and how normal they seemed in public, but then there were these small moments of unhinged behavior from both characters. The reactions from the "normal" people were very entertaining to watch. For me, the selling point was their discussions about living forever. I often ponder what it would be like to live forever, and this game represents that idea well.

I guess living forever would slowly but surely drive someone insane unless they lost a bit of their humanity along the way. I like to think these two characters live forever and that the game takes place over years rather than days. That's why we can go on forever with the dates, and even when they repeat, I personally didn't notice.

Stanwixbuster113 days ago

I didn't fully flesh out how long these two have been at it but "well more than several years" was the idea. I really like your take on this game actually taking place over several years, too. I saw it as taking place sequentially day-by-day, but given that it loops forever, it very well could take place over several years, which ties the two together quite nicely.

Insanity is more a theme of this as percieved insanity, given that these two are, effectively, in their own mini-community entirely divorced from a human one, but still living parallel to it. Now they're trying to navigate and rediscover how to live knowing they can never die, which definitely looks like insanity to "normal" people, but makes entire logical sense to themselves.

This is part of an universe of games all about being granted immortality and how people handle it, which i'm hoping to focus on more heavily in the future: https://itch.io/c/4016065/immortal-starstreaker. Most of this game came about from wanting to write an immortal who actually liked immortality, compared to many of the others I'd done who absolutely do not.