this is def your AAA+ review, Oxy😍 people said before they liked the game, but it still seemed they missed a lot, so having this Silmarillion-long review is very important for me as a dev!🖤
what makes me the most happy is that you loved "the feel of the game", because while making it, i really tried to express what i felt when i found this beautifully weird world of indie games. i'm glad i made it! In later games i concentrated more on improving art, story and characters' relationships, bc i felt like i lacked the ability to make the story more emotional. I guess now i'm better at that, and it will help me to make the second chapter better! bc Senza will meet actual people(and other creatures too of course), so he will unlock more emotions too:) But yeah this game is the most complex in terms of game mechanics, i spent ALOOOT of time making them all😭 And testing omg testing was hellllll. but now it paid off since you liked the puzzles and chases:)) (it seems they still have bugs tho... HOW???😱) But i think i have more experience with that too now💪🏻
i think you might be the only one who actually read the quote at the beginning and tried to understand it😅 Your interpretation is very close to what i intended, but i'd add that an organism is not literally somebody's body, but more like a metaphor too😉
anyway, thank you for playing, thank you for reviewing, that gives me a lot of motivation to work on chapter 2 faster(now ive only made a couple of small character updates...)