i thought this was gonna be a different game and then it turned into the game i wanted it to be so good job

very charming game. the core conceit is hard to get right, especially in 4 hrs, for the best of folks, and I think the game stumbles along the way. for ex: I wish there had been custom dialogue/prose when different combos of the monsters speak to each other instead of a bottleneck passage which just swaps out the names (as far as I could tell). But for 4 hours by an author new to the genre, it's pretty good, and having one theme disguised as another is fun! I also liked the drawings.

I enjoyed the creativity of the character designs and how the writing managed to convey two different things at once. I'm more used to playing parsers than choice games, and it was somehow satisfying beginning to see the web of pathways.