Spoiler Alert!
Very impactful plot, and I guess I sort of knew that was coming with the gif as the first thing I see while downloading it, but it still shook me (in a good way). The plot still felt sorta…contrived? Since the reason he was in that shelter in the first place wasn’t expanded on, but that’s not really the focus of the story anyway. It’s emotional, though maybe too fast for me to really have attachment to the characters. I really love that they are going in the reverse timeline of relevant moments of their past relationship (and also making the start the end of it all too).
For presentation, I love the added sprite of Ned, and the shifts in both bgs and music. Especially with the final bg at the end, it looked to me like the MC sees the world differently because of his depression and letting that go returned the color to the world (also explains the switches in bg between alive and dead Ned). Small nitpick but the main menu bg felt a little inconsistent cuz either you’re curving along the skull or you’re not, half this and half that felt a bit off but its fine.
Theme, MC moving on, in a way finding the ‘Light’ in his circumstance, in his “unhealthy” attachment of Ned. And idk which interpretation does the story was trying to say, but I really hoped that request was from Ned’s soul, to see his lover be less burdened by his death.
P.S I suppose you could say…smell ya never…get it cuz Ned smells. I’ll see myself out.
Rating: 3345
Edit: Rebalancing of rating to 4345