Thank you for sharing your thoughts back with me. TBH I wasnt expecting you to even see the post, nevermind respond to it. That means alot in this day. Honestly what I posted was only in the hopes of giving you (and maybe others who might be working on future projects of their own and happened to read it) some food for thought. I did not intend to be rude, though i will not deny that there wasnt still a bit of anger left having just come away from that 2nd (seemingly random and pointless) death.
I know that the formula you used in this VN is common practice these days. Amnesia comes to mind right away of another VN I played that was chock full of guess wrong / die endings. It was considered by the masses to be excellent. To me it was dissappointing. If I need a guide or hours of saving / guessing / replaying the same route over and over again to get to a Not Dead ending, where is the fun in that? Changling is another VN that i really really enjoy the story line(s) of but always come away unhappy from. You have to get every interaction with the character who's route your on right or you dont get their best ending, and there are so many choices (normally a plus right?) and there are no indications when you make any given choice if it was the "right" one or not. So in the end you either need ungodly luck, or a walk through because that game doesnt provide the necessary feed back to let you intuit / get there on your own.
I can honestly tell that you are a great writer, the fact that you do your own coding too well thats just amazing. If you tell me you also did all the art work I think Ill just cry that I havnt won the lotto yet and cant hire you to work on my dream team! (lol seriously some day if God is willing, but thats for another day) I know you dont need me, or anyone else to tell you how to do what you do. I am just hoping some constructive feed back might have been welcome.