I don't know who the guy in the beginning of the game is, but I really, REALLY hope he's romancable! ❤️
He's the dreamiest dream-guy ever. ^_^
(I know, bad pun. lol)
How on EARTH you can relax with a person so suspicious as the soothsayer tho is beyond me.
(In fairness; I might have bolted right around the point he knew more about me than just village rumors.)
The seemingly 'difficult' choice is NOT a choice!! >_<
ALL choices lead to the same, EVEN if it's NOT the choice the arrow is drawn too. >_<
Why not have all the choices say the same damned thing then?
Why pretend a choice exist if there is non? >_>
...I may have changed my mind about the dream guy.
I might just destroy him, his dream, and everything he holds dear instead!
And join his enemy and ruin his plans! *glares*
(I don't appreciate being forced into things.
I DO appreciate the chance of taking horrible, painful vengeance on people who try, however. So I keep my fingers crossed that is an option in this game.)
...I would also have stabbed the guy who grabbed you while fleeing from the monster. It is NOT wise to trust someone who randomly grabs you.
Why is it not a choice to stab him and run?
Of course the mc is dumb enough to listen to a voice in her head... But I am going to chalk that up to some kind of compulsion spell.
(Otherwise she's dumber than I thought.)
Small writing error: The guy say I trusted him once before, and I need to do so again.... I did NOT trust him. Not once. Not even a little.
It would be better if you changed what he says there based on your trust level from before.
I also wish you had the choice to call the guy a kidnapper and try to run away.
I may not particularly -want- to go to the voice, personally.... but I'd still like to have the CHOICE to do so.
(And I might want to try on another walktrough, once I am less pissed off at the guy who dragged me there.
If he really is the guy from the beginning dream, I do like his personality.)
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Now that my irritation over being dragged around against my will is over, and done pissing me off, and I am marginally more objective....
As a game....
The story is actually pretty interesting, and the art is very good.
I DO wish you have more choices to fight everyone off and reject everyone and everything and keep trying to escape.
I also wish the choices -mattered-.
Even IF your choices lead to bad ends.
Because it is ALWAYS better to be able to make a bad choice than to not have a choice at all.
(And if the guys who kidnapp-saved you didn't want you there, it would cost them nothing to let you go.
Even if it means you get eaten by monsters.
And there should be a choice to try and run away, even if you end up in the hands of the voice who brought you there, should you survive the monsters.
....actually, taking his route would make a nice side-game to this.
A dark mirror version I imagine.)
But I will concede that this game have more choices in that direction than many other games, so it's not all bad.
The artwork is good, and I am INCREDIBLY curious about what the monsters who call your name is.
I also wonder if there will be a way you can reject everything and go back to you world, and let that world rot, in the end.
....and yes, as much as he pissed me off, I still wonder if the first dream-guy is romancable.
While his approach was terrible, and manipulation would have worked a million times better, I STILL like what I've seen of him.
His heavy-handedness aside.
Presuming it is the first dream-guy we're talking about.
Because he did speak like a villain.
(And I would never in a million years be any kind of hero. Or date one.)
As frustrating as the game is, it's also a very good one.
As far as I can tell.
And I would love to see more of it, when more of it is developed.
Or if this was just the demo, and the full game is finished; I hope to find it on Steam.
Because it really does seem interesting.
(And Envy is kinda hot, and have a sensible attitude.)