Heya! Thanks so much for playing the game, I really, REALLY appreciate it!!! :D
I'm so glad someone noticed that Life/The Girl were in color, I had a whole sequence how everything was just in regular color, but as the centuries went on, and things got more hopeless and gray; literally. XD
Yeah I will admit, I'm really fricking sad I didn't get to do as high quality writing as I wanted. Almost half of the jam was spent just making the dialogue systems and stuff (I didn't know there were Engines like Renpy :sob:), so that is entirely valid, I of all people regret that the story was geuinely really sub-par in the Marauder route, thanks for the honesty!
The transition thing, yeah I was considering just freezing player input, but then people would have to wait A LONG TIME, so I just opted to make it possible to be watch slowly and perfectly, but if they wanted to speed-run it, they can just M1 + M2 and watch it kind of have a stroke. XD
And again, the writing totally had flaws, thanks for pointing them out, that's actually insanely useful! :D Most of it was just of course, a lack of time with being the only writer and stuff, but also I was a bit sheep-ish about writing something so insanely horrifying, but after thought that's definately what I should've been going for, I'm noting this!
Lastly, heh, the reason life's sprite was so different was, literally, I can not draw hair. XD
Every single character I had several concept art's, so all the artist's know what to draw, and of course I story-boarded every cg, but um, I was planning for life to possibly have hair, which I can't draw, so the artist had to both come up with a design and finialize all the sprites in like less than a week since the jam was almost over! :sob:
Moving forward I'm almost definately going to continue this story, this jam was my first time working for a team, and I'm just gonna say, I had no idea what I was doing at first. XD
NOW THOUGH, I now just what to do, especially with the writing! I've noted most all of this, I really, really appreciate all of the feedback, this will help a ton!
Have an excellent day, and good luck with judging!! >:D