There is a moment where the MC mentions questioning their sanity and needing a therapist after enjoying their time with J, and I laughed quite hard at that because that's exactly what I was thinking too.
This is an AMAZING game! I was already on board when I saw the description but actually playing it was so fun. It can be hard to find games that balance erotic and horror content really well but this one worked perfectly, I was absolutely enthralled throughout the whole playtime. And the setting is so creative, both with the gorgeous art and the descriptions it was incredible seeing how you created a world of candies that felt so viscerally real. Every scene looks and sounds beautiful, this really is some great eye candy (pun fully intended).
The writing itself is brilliant, I think 6 endings is already a great selection and I enjoyed getting all of them but the sheer number of ways to get to each ending blew me away. I think I've exhausted every option now but I kept getting surprised by finding something completely new each run through, it must have taken ages for you to figure out all those routes. And seeing which options helped each stat was also interesting, I kept having points where I could see a potential new route or scene but one of my stats (usually my health) kept preventing me from seeing something new. It was a good challenge and made dealing with J way more tense as you really had to fight to get good responses from them.
Speaking of J, good lord they are definitely going on my list of questionable fictional crushes. In some games like this it can be easy for the romance and horny routes to completely overshadow the horror but you kept them threatening all the way through, which only made them more compelling as a character. I never felt fully comfortable with J, especially upon realising there was no way to avoid getting hurt completely and that even the survival endings still had a tinge of uncertainty to them. But their softer moments still tugged at my heart strings, loved seeing those layers of depth for them start to peak through, and as for the horny scenes... oh wow. I went down the horny route very quickly but I was not fully prepared for how well those scenes were written, and the fact that there's so much body personalisation just made it so much easier to lose myself in them (btw thank you for giving body type options, I rarely see that in these kind of games and it was nice getting to be acknowledged as chubby while getting horny).
Also I apparently now have a kink for having my blood crystalised and fondled so... thanks for that???
I really enjoyed playing this, the fact that this is considered a demo and we could be getting even more content definitely has be excited. I'm more than likely going to play it again in the future and I'm definitely interested in seeing more of your work.