Thank you for the detailed feedback and great comment, I appreciate it. More variety of sfx would be nice, I agree, its just kind of the bare minimum as is. Art is a big weakness of mine, so I tried the irl picture with badly hand-drawn 2d animation combo to try and mitigate my lack of skill lol. I agree it doesn't work all the time, its definitely an odd look. The only part I'm super happy how it turned out was the opening the door scene.
Re: the ending. The irl sketch is supposed to be a marionette/puppet kind of thing that has been ripped apart from the strings. The idea is that the main character has finally reached a point where he can't pretend to be someone else any more and the opening of the curtain was showing him kind of escaping. The parents coming to talk to him are 5 seconds too late, as he has already made his mind up. I don't think I did a great job of showing this in the cutscene lol.
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