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Reviewing this after getting ending 3. 

The art style here is truly stunning! I'm extremely impressed with how you managed to create such clear and elegant character designs without relying on outlines and while using relatively minimalist color choices. As someone who does pixel art more often in a top-down aesthetic rather than full portraits or landscapes, I found the illustrations to be disarmingly excellent. I think the only part of the art style which threw me was the incorporation of pixelated real photos, but it was easy to adjust to it before long.

I will say that without conventional gameplay elements like trackers or meters, it's difficult to tell which ending a playthrough is really headed toward. I received ending 3 without really knowing what exactly led me there, which wasn't a terrible surprise since the ending itself was enjoyably tragic yet optimistic, but still left me in the dark about what I could have done differently for another ending. That surprise is some of the fun, though.

Overall, this was short but high quality visual novel. If there was a fuller version of this concept with more onscreen characters and more art style-consistent backgrounds, I imagine it could be a solid full release. Also, I thought the music was great too! Did you make the vocal tracks, or are they from a music pack?

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Thank you so much for playing!! :'D

I'm glad you enjoyed the art!! I had wanted to try out making a visual novel with edited photos for the backgrounds for a while, but it was definitely in part for the time efficiency too.  I'll take note of adding more hints for the endings too for future improvements! If you want a hint to avoid ending 3 in a future playthrough and see the rest of the story, you can try choosing the options where you teamwork more with the Hero. o/

I definitely want to expand it in the future and add the stuff I didn't have enough time to do and more. Without the time constraint I could redraw the backgrounds myself to keep them more consistent and close to how I imagined the places, and maybe even make them explorable maps :')

The music is all royalty free tracks from various composers! The vocal one from the title screen is by zippy, with the vocals made with VSynth if I'm not wrong.