Whatever has been finished is really cool. I myself had difficulty with branching dialogue, and seeing a full game about it makes me appreciate it all the more haha. Great writing on behalf of Ella. Writing that actually flows is hard, but it worked really damn well at conveying emotion. Great work!
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Thanks so much for playing, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!! The branching dialogue was a pain on my end as well haha, especially because I tried my best to make each choice have unique dialogue and some choices lead to several routes. I think I wrote twice as much dialogue as anyone would see on a normal playthrough, so you probably dodged a bullet by not heading too far down that road lol.
And thank you so much for the compliment on the writing!! This is my first time writing for a game, and it was a lot harder than I expected to convey both character attributes and themes without being too on the nose (earlier versions of ELLA-M were both more sarcastic and got depressed much earlier/more drastically). I'm gonna keep trying to improve, but I really appreciate the encouragement on my current state!