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Damn, this game went HARD!  Really interesting story arc, lots of neat world lore, quirky characters to romance, a good soundtrack and sound design, and nice looking retro-VN-style artwork!

After getting the 3 main endings, I did a few partial playthroughs to get the remaining romanceable character endings, but I'm still missing quite a few Gallery entries (BGs I'm guessing?):
- 1st one on page 1
- entries 2, 7, 8 on page 3
- everything except the last one on page 4

Also, is there a way to return to the Title screen from in-game without using your Keyboard? (i.e. is there a mouse equivalent of pressing ESC?)

Now that the jam's over and time constraints aren't an issue, I'd love to see an optimization patch, because when I first launched the game (v1.01?), it took something like 2+ minutes after launching the executable before I could even see the game window anywhere (task bar or otherwise), and it ate up more than 6 GB of memory initially(!!) before settling down in the 2~3 GB range.  Plus, when unzipped, the project is almost 5 GB in size.

So any performance improvements would be very welcome. 🙏

I liked the stat system - simple but effective - and the "text-based combat" was pretty neat too.

When I saw some of the stat checks, like the Major's relationship requirement, I assumed the game might play out similar to Edge of Eternity (MC dies, goes to Valhalla, restarts the game as a "New Game+" while inheriting their previous stats, allowing players to gain stat scores above 10 - and thinking that might've even be a requirement to "finish" the game).  Even though that didn't happen, I still enjoyed the twists and turns along the way!

Also, Khara best girl. <3

Awesome job yet again!