Smh my head, my scheme is to takeover the comment section of every submission muahahah.
For the Good Ending, there’s actually 2 ways to get it just in case the reader didn’t get the memo :))
And for the theme related stuff in the ending, perhaps you could say that not all light is beneficial (but honestly I didn’t think that far oop)
I’m pretty sure there’s only 1.5 scenes that overlap when the route split, still though, maybe I really should’ve made it more different (I still have spare word count anyway). Oh and the comment about jam scope was literally spot on >.< I tried my best to accomodate the story but had to just stick with the NVL sequence in the end because of many constraints.
Tor’s soul was dragged in to fulfill Ian’s wish, hence they are the ‘light’ but also the ‘dark’ of each other. The wish to go the beach is still there despite it already being fulfilled in the real world is because Ian considers that ‘quality time’ as per the exact words of the wish. The 3 lab sequences takes place some time after the beach journey.
I was pretty sure I checked every bg 😭 the tunnel is supposed to be complete black, only appearing twice in the “Friend” route right after the route split. I might have used the wrong bg there but ill have to recheck for that.
Me and a few guys was also pondering over the ‘Start Again’ button too, but thematically it would feel like Death-or the player is enabling this cycle of suffering again so we kind of decided against it.
Fun fact: the amount of cycles is a randomly generated number because all numbers I wrote felt cringe somehow.
Ian wished he had that many furcare bamboo tubes.